F 





CZ/^y 







^^DlCAT/o^ 



OF THE 



Soldiers' uiul Sailors' llonument, 



HANOVER, 




^^SSACHUS^t^^ 



THE- EEOORD 



PROCESSION AND OF THE EXERCISES 



JliHtHlitttt n\ i\M HununtEnl 



(WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, A.D. 1878) 



EEECTED BY THE PEOPLE OP 



HANOYER, MASSACHUSETTS, 



In Grateful JMemorp 



THE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS OF THAT TOWN WHO DIED 

IN THE WAR FOR THE PRESERVATION 

OF THE UNION. 



BOSTOX: 

A. WILLIAMS & CO., 

283 Washington Street. 
1878. 






- A 

^a pniar: Cfje iFittmg ^Tribute to tfje Jligfitg ©ealj." 



Franklui Press: 

Rand, Avery, Ss' Company, 

Iiy Franklin Street, 

Boston. 



OONTEJ^TS. 



PAGE 

War Record of the Town 5 

Measures for procuring a Monument 5 

Description of the Monument 6 

List of Documents deposited under the Monument .... 8 

Arrival of the Guests 9 

Breakfast . . . . i \. .10 

On the Way to the Monument 10 

Military Reception of the Governor 10 

The Order of Procession 11 

The Services of Dedication 13 

Address of Welcome 13 

Reading of Selection of Scriptures 15 

Prayer of Dedication 16 

Address of the Architect 17 

Unveiling of the Monument 17 

Address of Acceptance on behalf of the Committee .... 18 

Address of Delivery of Monument to Selectmen of the Town . . 18 

Address of Acceptance of Monument in behalf of the Selectmen . 19 

The Roll of Hanover's Heroic Dead 20 

Intermission 22 

Dinner 22 

The Exercises in the Tent 22 

Response of His Excellency Gov. Rice 24 

Letter of the Hon. B. W. Harris, M.C 27 

Response of the Hon. N. P. Banks, M.C 27 

Letter of Gen. C. C. Augur, U.S.A 29 

Response of the Rev. Henry B. Hibben, U.S.N 30 

Response of the Hon. J. B. D. Cogswell 33 

Response of the Hon. J. D. Long 34 

Letter of Major C. B. Whittemore 36 

Response of Col. Aug. P. Martin 37 

Response of the Hon. E. Y. Perry 40 



4 Contents. 

Exercises in the Tent. — Continued. page 

Response of Mr. George W. Penniman 44 

Response of Arthvir Lord, Esq 49 

Ensign of the HaTiover Rifle Company 53 

Letter from the Hon. Perez Simmons 55 

Letter from the Hon. Henry B. Peirce 55 

Letter from Gen. Horace B. Sargent 56 

Letter from Asst. Adjt.-Gen. J. F. Meech 56 

Address of Col. Hemy W. Brown 57 

Letter from the Rev. Jacob Baker 58 

Letter from Gen. John M. Corse .58 

Response of Mr. "William Carver Bates 59 

Response of W. R. Howes, M.D 62 

Floral Cross Memorial of Joseph E. Wilder 64 

Response of tlie Hon. .L Dwelley 65 

Letter from Mr. John Curtis .69 

Response of Daniel E. Damon, Esq 70 

Response of the Hon. E. R. Studley 74 

Sonnet by Mrs. George Lunt 76 

Response of the Rev. C. W. Allen 77 

Response of Mr. G. R. Dwelley 79 

Response of William P. Dnncan, Esq 81 

Response of Jolm O. French, M.D 83 

Response of the Rev. A. Read 84 

ResiJonse of tlie Rev. A. P. Rein 87 

Address of the Hon. S. Tolman .91 

Remarks of, and Resolution of Thanks to, the President of tlie Day, 

offered by the Hon. J. Dwelley ....... 93 

Remarks of the Hon. E. Y. Perry in suj)port of the Resolution . 93 

Reply of the President of the Day 94 

Remarks of Post Commander R. C. Waterman, presenting a Frag- 
ment of the Monument to the President of the Day ... 94 

Reply of tlie President of the Day 95 

Appendix 99 

Brief Notes 99 

Thanks to the Monument Committee 100 

Thanks to the Ladies of Hanover 100 

Tlianks to the Chief Marshal 100 

Thanks to the Aides of the Chief Marshal 101 

Thanks to the Staff of the President of the Day . . . .101 

Thanks to the South- Abingtou Band 101 

Roll of the Joseph E. Wilder Post 102 



iolbietB' anb Sailors' IHoitument* 



WAR RECORD OF THE TOAVX. 

The record of the town of Hanover in the late war for the pres- 
ervation of the Union is a most creditable one. The first meet- 
ing to act upon affairs connected with this war was held Ma}' 4, 
1861. 

At all subsequent meetings, the town showed a most commend- 
able spirit of patriotism relative to this fearful struggle. 

Her citizen soldiers were a glory to the town and an honor to 
the State, and were never found wanting in the time of trial. 

She furnished about two hundred men — nearlj^ one-eighth of 
her entire population — to the armj' and nav}', and had a surplus 
of twenty-two over and above all demands at the end of the war. 

The town paid in bounties $25,000, and in State aid (refunded 
by the State) during the war $12,859. Since the war there has 
been expended for State aid $21,227. 

MEASURES FOR PROCURING A MONUMENT. 

The subject of the erection of a Monument to commemorate the 
valor of Hanover's heroic dead soldiers was brought to notice on 
Memorial Day, 1877. 

At the exercises in the Town Hall, one of the speakers remarked 
that more than sufficient time for the erection of a Monument to 
the memor}' of the brave soldiers from the town, avIio died in the 
war for the preservation of the Union, liad elapsed, and yet no 
steps had been taken to that end. 

He suggested that the ladies — always first in ever}' good work 
— should take the matter in hand, and b}' means of a Fair should 
endeavor to aid in procuring such an amount of money as would 
suffice to erect a Shaft to the memory of Hanover's fallen heroes. 



6 Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument. 

At the close of the exercises, action was taken looliing to the 
accomplisliment of the snggestion. 

A committee of ladies, in each of the eight school districts of the 
town, zealously took up and carried on the good work, the other 
ladies in their respective districts meeting with them week by 
week, maturing plans, and making articles for the proposed 
Fair. 

All honor to these devoted women who so cheerfully and indus- 
triously wrought in this noble undertaking ! 

The comrades of the local Grand Arm}- Post, in connection with 
the citizens generallj-, diligently' co-operated in the good work of 
bringing the enterprise to a most favorable result. 

The Fair was held in the Town Hall on Tuesda}', the 16th of 
the October following, and the three subsequent days, and was 
successful beyond the most sanguine expectations. 

The net receipts amounted to no less a sum than $1,248.22. 

Immediatel}' preceding the opening of the Fair, a most eloquent 
and touching address was delivered in the First Congregational 
Church, kindly opened for that object by the parish authorities, by 
Brig. -Gen. Horace Binne}' Sargent, Commander of the Massachu- 
setts Department of the Grand Army of the Republic. 

DESCRIPTION OF THE MONUMENT. 

The Monument is from a design furnished b}- a young artist, 
Mr. J. Williams Beal, S.B., a graduate of the Massachusetts 
Technological Institute. 

It is constructed of Concord (N.H.) granite, and was cut under 
the supervision of Mr. Moses Davis for the contractors, Messrs. 
A. Wentwortli, Roberts & Co., of Boston. 

It is placed in the fork of the roads, on the east side of the First 
Congregational Church, at Hanover Centre, which is about opposite 
the Town Hall, and rests upon a solid foundation of blocks of 
Quincy granite. 

It Is of a purely Grecian style of architecture, and embodies a 
pyramidical obelisk about twenty-five feet high, which is composed 
of a base six feet square and two feet six inches high, upon which 
rests a sub-base decorated with a heavy moulding. 

On this sub-base rests the die of the pedestal, which is orna- 
mented with polished sunk panels on each face. 



Description of the Monument. 



Ill these panels are cut the names of the hei'oic dead soldiers, 
and the legend of dedication, as follows : — 

(on the south face, the fbont.) 



ERECTED 
BY THE PEOPLE OF HANOVER 

IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF 

HER SONS WHO DIED IN THE WAR 

FOR THE PRESERVATION 

OF THE UNION. 

1878. 



(ON THE NORTH FACE.) 



(ON THE EAST FACE.) 



JOSEPH E. WILDER. 

CALVIN C. BAILEY. 

JOSEPH D. THOMAS. 

CALVIN C. ELLIS. 

SPENCER BINNEY. 

JOHN W. NELSON. 

WILLIAM CHURCH, JR. 



BENJAMIN CURTIS. 

JOSHUA E. BATES. 

WINFIELD S. GURNEY. 

FERRIN WILLIS. 

GEORGE W. WOODWARD. 

JOHN B. WILDER. 

ARTHUR SHEPARD. 

HIRAM B. BONNEY. 



(on THE WEST FACE.) 



JOHN 


LARKUM. 


LOAMMI B. 


SYLVESTER. 


JOHN H. CAREY. 


FRANCIS A 


STODDARD. 


GEORGE R 


JOSSELYN. 


LEVI C 


BROOKS 


MARCUS 


M. LEAVITT. 


ALBERT 


E BATES. 



From the die a large and graceful moulding projects, which re- 
ceives the cap of the pedestal. This weighs over eight tons, and 
is ornamented with four projecting pediments, on which are carved 
in beautiful relief the shield of the United States, resting on a 
graceful branch of palm for a backgi'onnd. 

On this rests the main shaft, which is monolithic, the base being 
decorated with sunk channels and raised stars. 

The shaft is crowned with a capital of unique design, which is 
decorated with four wreaths suspended from the sides. 

The shaft and capital weigh over fifteen tons. The whole com- 



8 Soldiers' and Sailors Monnment. 



position is graceful in every movement, and eminently fitting for 
the purpose of a soldiers' and sailors' Monument, and reflects 
aveat credit upon the artistic skill and correct taste of Mr. Beal. 
° The total cost of the Monument, including the foundation, &c., 

was $1,664.88. ^ , v ■ 

Of this sum, $848.64 was derived from the proceeds of the ^air, 

and $816.24 from the town in its corporate character. 

Besides the last-named amount, the town appropriated the sum 

of three hundred dollars for grading, turfing, and enclosing with a 

o-ranite curbing, the ground around the Monument. 

° The expenses connected with the dedication, amounting to about 

four hundred dollars, were defrayed from the proceeds of the Fair 
rrevious to its dedication, there was placed under the Monument 

a leaden box, containing as follows : — 

The Department of Massachusetts deposits in this box, under the Army ^ 
and Navy Monument erected by tbe People of Hanover, the following articles, 
A.D. 1878 : — 

Proceedings of National Encampments, 186G to 1S78 inclusive. 

Rules and Regulations. 

Sei-vice-Book and Memorial Service. -oa^nhlip 

One each of every kind of blank used in the Grand Army of the R<;Pubhc. 

Roster of Department and complete file of General Orders, series of 1878. 

A Grand Army of the Republic Badge, No. 4,330. 

Alphabetical List of the Battles of the War of tbe Rebellion. 

Conv of the United-States Army and Navy Pension Laws. 

^^ Horace Binney Sargent, 

V Tvr^^r.,T Department Commander. 

James F. Meech, ^ 

Assistant Adj utant-General. 

Reports of Selectmen and School Committee of the Town of Hanover for 

1877-1878. . 

Acts and Resolves of Massachusetts passed m the jeai 1878. 

Manual of General Court of Massachusetts for 1878. 

A copy of each of the Boston daily papers. 

Copies of local papers. 

"The Roll Call," Nos. 1 and 2, —the .Monument Fair Paper. 

Mrs M F. Allen's poem, written for the Monument Fair. 

Sermon by the Rev. William Henry Brooks, S.T.D., commemorative of 
the life and character of the late Rear Admiral Joseph Smith. 

The Monument was dedicated on the seventeenth day of July, A.D. 1878. 
Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States. 
Alexander H. Rice, Governor of Massachusetts. 



Arrival of Guests. 



Selectmen of Hanover. — Jedediah Dwelley, Isaac G. Stetson, Samuel H. 
Church. 

Committee of Arrangements. — Rodolph C. Waterman, Jedediah Dwelley, 
Calvin T. Phillips. 

J. Williams 'By.w., Architect. 

John G. Knight, Chief Marshal. 

The Rev. W. H. Brooks, S.T.D., President of the Day. 

ARRIVAL OF THE GUESTS. 

The Monument erected by the people of Hanover, in grateful 
memor}' of the soldiers and sailors from that town who died in the 
war for the preservation of the Union, was dedicated on Wednes- 
day, July 17, A.D. 1878. 

Business was suspended for the da}^ ; and at an early hour 
young and old, in holida}' garb, and intent on a day of rational 
pleasure and quiet enjoyment, began to make their appearance at 
the scene of the day's observances. 

The number of people from neighboring towns was large, and 
everywhere unwonted enthusiasm was manifested. 

The occasion assumed dignity with the arrival, at about half- 
past nine o'clock, of the morning train from Boston with a 
special car, bringing His Excellency Gov. Rice ; Major-Gen. 
Cunningham, Cols. Kingsbury-, Rice, Stevens, Mason, Parker, 
Hutchings, and Lyman, of the Governor's staff; President 
Cogswell of the Senate ; Speaker Long of the House of Repre- 
sentatives ; the Hon. Heniy B. Peirce, Secretary of State ; Major- 
Gen. N. P. Banks and wife ; Past Commander John L. Steven- 
sou of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company ; Col. Aug. 
P. Martin, Commander of the same organization, and his fellow- 
oflSeers, Lieut. Benjamin F. Field, jun., Sergt. Vincent Laforme, 
Sergt. Charles P. May, and Lieut. Horatio N. Crane, and Sergt. 
John J. Mann and wife ; Charles E. Donahoe, Esq., of St. Louis ; 
William Paley Duncan, Esq., other invited guests, and represen- 
tatives of the press. 

These gentlemen were received at the station by the President 
of the Day, and his staft; William Gray Brooks, Esq., Charles F. 
Phillips, Esq., E. C. Waterman, Esq., Mr. L. Vernon Briggs, and 
Mr. Horace S. Tower, and were (with the exception of the officers of 
the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company and those accom- 
panying them) conducted to the Academy Hall, where, after grace 



10 Soldiers' andSmlor^^Mom^ 

of a substantial and 1"-""= ,';"''"^'^"tu „avSi of St.. Andrew, 
tospUaUty of the •='^;- f ^^^J^t 'a ^^ of tUei,- ,u.n,be.. 
which was most acceptably senea u.> 

ON THE WAY TO THE MONDMENT. 

Having spent .a,f a„ Uou. at tbe Uaii t.e V^^^^^^^ 
and a line of the same ,vas f° ™ '' ™^- * ^t,,.. , ,a,.ge 
Horaee S. Tower, of the Pres.dent of *e UO .^ ^^ 

„nn>ber of barouches, P'';-'';;;:^':^',::.irrowards Hanover 
it passed on its way over the °''^^^'";^\^ („ take place. 
Centre, where the fX:^J^;Z:Z:r^ea with the nation- 
al!!::::' ^S^^r .:::; ati^terva,s across the streets chosen 
for the route of tire procession. ,^^^,^^^ „f 

^^ong the noticeable decora -^^^ 

'^rarrst:. u'nf « «. A.len, Mr. Me.zar C. Badcy, 

and Mr. Nornrau a-^berlu.. ^^^^.^^^ton Street, at the 

On the route, a halt w..s .". ^^^^^^ ^ ^_^^^ ^^^^ ^_^^_..^g^^ ^^„. 

summer residence of Lieut i,. ■ „ ,g „„<! those 

'"'"'"^- '".rt: :l,Tb::!:fa"'had\een the gnests of 
r:C'Z:Xr,we.gi;en..^s in t^^ „,. ^ 

A short distance from "><= M™"^"^ '' '^..^ p„,„, ,vitU the 
.,,^3. pine grove, the escor o b d A, ^^^.^^ ^^^ ^^.^^. ^_ 
bands, was drawn up m Ime along ^^ "^ „.^^ ,,,ie„.ed 

guished Governor of ti.e Comn^nw.ait . U. .^^ ^^^^^^_ ^^^ ^^^^^ 
by His Excellency and h>s staff. As t he^ V ^^ ^ j^^,^^ 

saluted ; and when the carnages '-' f ^^ " ' ;„ r,o„t. 
while the military marched by -'^ °»J;^'j^ , / „,,„„ing of these 
Tl>e soldier-like appearance and »^^'™'^™ The line, greatly 

Trrrr:"«t^^;t;:rx had come to wit. 
rra:;rS^i..---— u:d':rtdiaiap. 

The appearance o the ^^^Zt ^^s by him most gracefully 
planse, and the pleasing compliment D) 

acknowledged. ^ number of ladies 

A short distance from the Town Hall, 



The Order of Procession. 11 

and gentlemen fell into line ; and the procession, formed under the 
direction of the Chief Marshal, Past Commander John G. Knight, 
moved to the Monument in the following order : — 

THE ORDER OF PROCESSION. 

Chief Marshal John G. Knight, and the followuig Aides: — 
Frederick Stetson, Charles F. Russell, Alfred S. Brooks, 

Lyman Russell, John W. Everson, Josiah S. Thomas. 

Henry L. Sweeny, J. Howard Crocker, 

The South-Abington Brass Band ; William A. Bowles, leader, twenty-two 

pieces. 
Simpson Drum Corps, of South Weymouth. 



Military Escort. 

Joseph E. Wilder Post, of Hanover, Xo. 83, G.A.R. ; Lewis Josselyn, Senior 

Vice Commander, thirty men. 
J. E. Simmons Post, of Pembroke, No. Ill, G.A.R. ; Miles Sampson, Com- 
mander, thirty men. 
South-Scituate Brass Band; David H. Stoddard, leader, twenty pieces. 
D. Willard Robinson Post, of South Scituate, No. 112, G.A.R.; O. B. Prouty, 

Commander, forty-five men. 
T. L. Bonney Post, of Hanson, No. 127, G.A.R.; John Barker, Commander, 

twenty men. 
G. W. Perry Post, of Scituate, No. 31, G.A.R. : W. H. Osborne, Commander, 

twenty-five men. 



His Excellency Alexander H. Rice, LL.D. ; the President of the Day; 

Horatio Bigelow, Esq. ; and Mr. L. Vernon Briggs, 

of the President of the Day's Staff. 

Major-Gen. James A. Cunningham, Adjutant-General; 

Col. Isaac F. Kingsbury, Assistant Adjutant-General ; 

Col. John H. Rice, Assistant Adjutant- General ; 

Col. Edward G. Stevens, Assistant Inspector-General ; 

Lieut.-Col. Frederick Mason, Assistant Inspector-General ; 

Col. Henry G. Parker, Assistant Quartermaster-General ; 

Col. William V. Hutchings, Aide-de-Camp ; 

Col. Arthur T. Lyman, Aide-de-Camp ; 

of the Governor's Staff. 

The Rev. Henry B. Hibben, Chaplain U.S.N. 

The Hon. J. B. D. Cogswell, President of the Massachusetts Senate; the 

Hon. Jolm D. Long, Speaker of the Massachusetts House of 

Representatives; and William Gray Brooks, Esq., 

of the President of the Day's Staff. 



12 Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument. 



The Hon. Henry B. Peirce, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massa- 
chusetts. 
OflBcers of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts : 
Col. Aug. P. Martin, Commander; Lieut. Benj. F. Field, jun., 2d Lieut. ; 
Sergt. Vincent Laforme, Paymaster and Treasurer; Lieut. George 
H. Allen, Ass't Paymaster and Clerk; Sergt. George P. May, 
Quartermaster; Past Commanders Gen. N. P. Banks, Capt. 
John L.Stevenson; Privates; Lieut. Horatio N.Crane, 
Sergt. John J. Mann ;i Charles E. Donahoe, Esq., 
formerly a member of Martin's Battery; 
and Eben C. Waterman, Esq., of the 
President of the Day's Staff. 
Col. Henry "W. Brown, Third New-Jersey Regiment. 
The Reverend Clergy. 
The Speakers. 
.Invited Guests. 
The Selectmen of the Town of Scituate. 
The Selectmen of the Town of Pembroke. 
The Selectmen of the Town of Hanson. 
The Selectmen of the Town of South Scituate. 
The Selectmen of the Town of Rockland. 
Veterans of the war of 1812: Oren Josselyn, aged eighty-five, and Luther 
Turner, eighty-one, both of Hanover; and William 
Lapham, aged eighty-two, of South Scituate. 
Old-Colony Division Sons of Temperance, twenty-five members ; George A. 

Clapp in charge. 

Corner Stone Temple of Honor, No. 22, Thomas Turner, W.C.T. ; fifty 

men in regalia, headed by the East-Weymouth 

Temple of Honor Drum Corps. 

North-Hanover Reform Club, S. A. Henderson, President; one hundred and 

fifty members. 
Young Folks' Reform Club, Joseph Henderson in charge, forty young people. 

The Architect of the Monument. Mr. J. Williams Beal. 
The Monument Committee: R. C. Waterman, Jedediah Dwelley, Calvin T. 

Phillips. 
The Selectmen of the Town of Hanover : Jedediah Dwelley, I. G. Stetson, 

S. H. Church. 

The Unveiler of the Monument, Mrs. R. C. Waterman ; Mrs. W. H. Brooks ; 

and Charles F. Phillips, Esq., of the President of the Day's Staff. 

Citizens in general. 

About fift}' carriages were in the procession. 

The column marched to the Centre, around the First Congrega- 
tional Church to the Monument, which had been erected at its east 
side, on land belonging to the town. 

• Besides these raembers of the A. H. A. C, two others were present, — Col. Henry G. 
Parker and Col. Edward G. Stevens, of the Governor's staff. 



The Services of Dedication. 13 

Upon arriving at the Monument, the vehicles in the procession 
containing the Governor, the other dignitaries and invited guests, 
the mounted officers, and the Posts of the Grand Arm}', as a guard 
of honor, took places near the temporary platform erected about 
the monument. The brilliancy of the uniforms, and the dignified 
bearing of the Governor's staff, and of the officers of the Ancient 
and Honorable Artillery Company, added greatly to the splendor 
and impressiveness of the assemblage of several thousand persons 
there present. 

THE SERVICES OF DEDICATION. 

After those who were to take part in the exercises at this point 
(including the Unveiler, who was escorted to the platform by Wil- 
liam Gray Brooks, Esq., of the President of the Day's Staff) had 
ascended the stand, prompt!}- at eleven o'clock, the hour appointed, 
the Chief Marshal, Past Commander John G. Knight, introduced 
the President of the Day. 

The President of the Day having given the signal bv the lifting 
of his baton, the services of dedication were opened with Keller's 
American Hymn b}' the South- Abington Baud, which so admirably 
rendered the musical portion of the exercises of the occasion. 

The Address of Welcome was then delivered hy the Rev. William 
Henry Brooks, D.D. (Minister of St. Andrew's Church, Hanover), 
the President of the Day, and was as follows : — 

Ladies and Gentlemen, — On this deeply-interesting occasion, 
fragrant with tender and sacred associations, it is my happy privi- 
lege to extend to 3-ou a cordial and heartfelt welcome. To your Ex- 
cellency, the highly-esteemed Governor of the Commonwealth, "the 
first in worth as in command," and to you, honored members of his 
honorable staff; to you, a gallant officer in the National Army, 
whose valuable services in maintaining the honor and perpetuity of 
the Union are equalled only hy your earnest and untiring efforts, as 
a soldier of the Church militant, for the breaking down the kingdom 
of sin, Satan, and death; to you, a reverend and worth}- chaplain 
of the Navy, — that branch of the service which is " a safeguard 
unto the United States of America, and a security for such as pass 
on the seas upon their lawful occasions ; " to you, the repeatedly- 
chosen Representative in Congress of the people of the United 
States within the bounds of the Second District of Massachusetts ; 



to 50U, tne s live ovatov at the t.e ^ncovporation 

the eloquent and instr Anniversary ol the 1 I 

the One Hundred ™* J" .hearted Secvetarj of the ^ 
of this Town ; to you *« ^'= O^.ers of the Anc> nt and 

::::: p": -s - -— ^e X-ountry^tna..'^^^^^^^^ 

''='=': r xrs\":o :: ath m the h^^h piaee. of t^^«e ^ , ^^ 

arded then- Ines unto g,„„d Arm} of the K 1 

-- °- rc''" tr.o"-°- --; tit" idr « 

whose words, being ^"- u ond as uails tasteneu, r 

;-Sating to right -;-• ^^ p,.e«ntUrg then, fro™ be.ng 

r";r\ r"«gent, enterprising reporters^ ^^^^.^J to 

^--tc;^^;:r:^----i-':^r;:n: 
rdroTsri::::^^^ - - »':tr:s:r .tr ^^rviguant 
-- »^ ron;:::o%rri;rt.ese to.. .^^^^^^ 

r ::n:ltt:^■Uated s^Tnfsr^^^^^^^ 

tiie ^«» to vou, the Ensign lu , ,, t^ vou the asso- 

mothev-countr> , to }ou, heaven 1 to >ou, 

T .nv -late may you return to ue ^^ ^,^^^^,^^ ^^ 

XI -- pronation 1*^^^^^^^^^^^ 
Z^:^^^' of har,.-. to you, the g>f.ed 



The Services of Dedication. 15 



tect, our near neighbor, — so near, territorially, that the line 
which deprives us of the honor of claiming 3-011 as a fellow-towns- 
man is but little thicker than a mathematical one ; to j'ou, the 
liberal and faithful contractors ; to 3-ou, under whose painstaking 
and skilful care the stones were cut; to yon, the Monument Com- 
mittee, whose very man}' and onerous duties have ended in the 
beautiful work of art about to become a precious treasure to be 
kept in the affectionate custod^'of the town ; to 30U, our respected 
neighbors and friends in parts adjacent ; to you, the strangers 
within our gates, from places more remote ; to 3'ou, the honest, 
straightforward, substantial people of the goodly town of Hanover, 
— to 3'ou, one and all, I say, from a heart in warm sympath3' with 
3'ou and the occasion, Welcome, Welcome, Thrice Welcome. 

The Rev. Samuel Hill (Baptist) of Hanover then read the fol- 
lowing selection from the Scriptures : — 

'■'■And David lamented with this lamentation over Said and over 
Jonathan his son : 

" (Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the 
how : behold, it is ivritten in the book of Jasher.) 

" The beauty of Israel is slain upo7i thy high places: how are the 
mighty fallen ! 

" Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon ; lest 
the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the un- 
circumcised triumph. 

" Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there 
be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings; for there the shield of 
the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had 
not been anointed loith oil. 

"•From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the 
how of Jonathan turned not bach, and the sword of Said returned 
not empty. 

" Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and 
in their death they ivere not divided : they were swifter than eagles, 
they ivere stronger than lions. 

" Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in 
scarlet, toith other delights; who put on ornaments of gold upon 
your apparel. 

" How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! Jona- 
than, thou wast slain in thine high places. 



7 ^mlors' Monument. 
.. Soldiers and ^aito^^^ _ 

_______ — — ^ ,7 „ . „erw pleasant 

l,ast thou Ucn unto mc: thy 10^ ^^^^_^ 

uffoto are (/>«'>»!''''»■'''""' 
_, S.M««. i- I'-"- Congvegational) of 

The Kev. Heno' M- /;*-„ ^C;, of Dedicatiou : - 
Hauovev then offered the foUo».n„ , ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^.^ 

We worship Thee, O God! '<>' Tl^^^/^^^,, „,, the destimes 
Ms name endureth foreve, I" Thj ,,^^ ^^^^^ ^.^^^^. ^ ,„ 
„ nations. Thou hast prom.sed Th^P ^^^^^ ^,,,y „at,on 

tvho obey Thy --»»:,;,;! „teedom has been prospered 
founded on principles ot »* ^ ;^,„<„^ ,bich so reeently took plaee 
and .hat, in the results of that St > ^^^_^^_.^.^ ^^^ p,o,rdentral 

between difl-erent sections ol 

hand can be so clearly seen ^^ ^^„j. ,o gather on 

We thank Thee that Thm ast pe. ^^^^^^^ ^j^^ brned 

,Ms interesting occa^on ; ^^ ^ ^ ,, ,,arts and billing hands 
and persevering efforts of manj 
^h the erection of this Monuraent. ^^^^^ ,,,„ gave 

"we dedicate this Monument m»«no ^.^ ^j^„„„,„, to Thy 
their lives for their country. Wc cle ^^^^ th,oughout otrr 

Irv, O God! and for *; 'f ^^'..^efore us, the witness of 
Country and the world. As a" ^.^^^^^ ^^ ^ 

,vhat others have done, may t also ^^^^^_^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^g^,„„^ 

Iriotism in .all our ^f^^'^xZU^ "ue and good ! 

!f God, and a sympathy wthalUto ^_^^ ^^^^^ , are 

Bless the Chief Mag.st.a^ rf o ^^^^^^. ^^e President of 

associated with him in the a^'^ »' ' ;„ conducting the exercises 
TeCay, and those assocateclw^thlr™ ^^ ^^^^^^ ^,,„ad 

of this occasion. Bless those «" i„ a special manner 

"LI the natives and --'ents f this to ^^^^ ^^^^^^_^^^^ ^,^„^^ 

remember those who are connected ^^^^^ ^^ ^j^^.^, ^^ 

names are on this Mon>™-t »^^ ^^^ ^^^^.„^^^ „, their loved 
„ent bo lessened by- the tbou^ht , 

oues are appreciated and w.^n-« ^^^ ,,„3t, and West may 

Bless our land. In *" /*°'' '„„„„ands, that Thou shalt see 
there be such an obedience to T^ ^ .„ ,,, „„rtd, and a 

B, to bless our conotrj , to ma^ 
!ou!:etf influence among all nations! 



The Services of Dedication. 17 

May the exercises of this da_y incite each one to the faithful 
performance of all those duties which belong to citizens of the 
United States of America ! This we ask in the Name of the 
Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Amen. 

The Monument was then delivered to the committee by the 
architect, Mr. J. Williams Beal, in these words : — 

Mr. Chairman, and Gentlemen of the Committee, — The duty 
which your committee intrusted to m3- charge is completed, and is 
here submitted to 30U for your approval and acceptance. To exe- 
cute a memorial most fitting and proper to the sons of Hanover 
who died in the war for the preservation of the Union has been 
my highest aim. Whether I have succeeded in giving an adequate 
expression of the gratitude of the people to those whom this shaft 
is to commemorate, remains for you, as their representatives, 
to say. I have to thank you, gentlemen, for your generous co- 
operation, which has rendered such duty a pleasure. I also desire 
to extend my sincere thanks to the President of the Day, the Rev. 
W. H. Brooks, D.D., for his personal interest and labors, which 
have been both timelj' and valuable. 

A white wrapping enveloped the Monument completely, and it 
was not removed until after the Monument had been delivered to 
the committee b}- the designer, Mr. Beal. 

The President of the Day. — To the zealous and self-sacri- 
ficing labors of the devoted women of this town, in the Fair of last 
j-ear, we are mainl}" indebted for this noble memorial of the 
patriotism and bravery of Hanover's heroic dead ; and, in grateful 
recognition of this fact, the Monument will now be unveiled by 
one who gave unsparingl}' of her time, her substance, her skill, to 
that good work, — the wife of the Commander of our local Army 
Post, Mrs. Rodolph C. Waterman. Let the Monument now be 
unveiled. 

Mrs. Waterman (who was appropriately dressed in pure white, 
enliA'ened with a tasteful profusion of ribbons of the national 
colors) was greeted with great applause, and, grasping the cord 
with her hands, drew down the envelope, thus revealing to the 
eyes of those present the fair proportions of the granite structure. 



Waterman, in the .oUo«ins language : - _^^ 

to you, the Avchlteet, that tt ,s ^^'^^^ Monument. And 
thit .e accept at yo^ ^""'^ *Td 'o.r modesty «ouM fovlnd, 
while ray inability must "»^™*' *", 4,,„„e praise and flattery, 
that you should be o™'""*" * "'^.^ ^e pleasure to be assured 
„e feel confident it must aff°';^°" ^e™ ,\,i, fte results of your 
that the Committee are more "'" «^' f/^^p^essions of approval 
genius and faitldul superv>sto„ • »^ ' >; .,/ ^,., ,„„,i„oiug proof 
l„i admiration -^eh greet us at eve .x^ 

that we do but utter the ^"l "™ ' "^f ;„„tracted for the execu- 
For the ironorable firm w^h.^^m«»^^^_,^C^ 

tion of this work ^Messrs A' We"^° j^^.,,. ,,e„arkable business 
ton) we have only words ot piaise |,„„orable dealing. 

..elss affords snbstautial -'^"-;;^;'^^;:,.,,, ,.ve furnisi.ed 
Of Mr. Davis, of N,ash«a, ^•«-; J"„^ l^,^f,i execution of the 
the -nauite, and whose pr.act.cal sl-dl ana ^^^^^^ _^^^_ 

™- rutest detail of the plan and f^^^^^l^,, of our citi- 
isfactory results, we eanuo -^^^'^^^ a.nng his tarry 
.ens have become personallj -J^'^f "^,,^^„t, ,„a in him have 

ctwned with that success it so nchlymera.. 

,,„HusEiehberg-s ..TO thee, O country: "was then played by 

the band. a..liverv of the Monument to the 

■^"■'^ ""^flrtw/b thl ei;:irn.an of the oommlt.ee, Mr. 
selectmen of thi tovNn j 
R C Waterman, in these %AOicls. 

;„,_xo you t,,e^;— - --^— -^r:;: 

rrcltrr tr: "eiuorial .!f the patriotism and self- 



The Services of Dedication. 19 

sacrifice of not a few of the sons of Hanover ; which memorial is, 
for the most part, the result of the unstinted and persevering 
labors of the women of Hanover, whose deep S3'mpathy with the 
soldier in the field manifested itself by caring for his wants, and 
whose affectionate reverence for his memory now finds expression 
in this enduring form. It is intended to be, not merely a memo- 
rial of those brave spirits who laid down their lives for the pres- 
ervation of the Union of the States of this vast Republic, but also 
to remind us of the dut}' of possessing and cherishing a glowing 
love for our countrj', and, if need be, to lay down our lives in its 
behalf. Accept this precious trust, with gratitude for the noble 
example of those of our fellow-townsmen who counted not their 
lives dear unto them that the Union might be preserved, and its 
blessings transmitted to all the generations of the future ; and feel 
honored b}' having had committed to 3^our tender care and faithful 
guardianship this noble tribute to our heroic dead. 

The Monument was then accepted in behalf of the Selectmen of 
the town b}' a member of that honorable board, Mr. I. Gilman 
Stetson, who spoke as follows : — 

Sir, — It is with pleasure that I, in behalf of the Selectmen, 
accept the sacred trust ; and I pledge you, sir, that Hanover will 
be in the future, as she has been in the past, true to her trusts. 

The colors of the State and of the United States were then 
placed by R. M. Sturtevant and James C. Bates — a detail from 
the local Army Post — on the inscriptions on the several faces of 
the Monument. 

The old ensign of the Hanover Rifle Company, presented to it 
in 1820 by the ladies of Hanover, was used to represent the Com- 
monwealth. Being weak from age, and a high wind prevailing 
at the time, it was not unfurled. 

The flag of the Post was used to represent the Union of the 
Commonwealths. 

Mr. A. J. Simpson, the leader of the Simpson Drum Corps, of 
South Weymouth, then beat a " Roll-Call " on a drum which had 
been owned and carried b^^ H. D. Lovice.^ 

1 The late Henry Dexter Lovice was a " drummer-boy " from Hanover, who served in the 
Army of the Potomac, under Gen. Grant, until the close of the war. He enlisted Oct. 21, 
1864, on the quota of Hanover, and was connected with the First Massachusetts Heavy 
Artillery. The drum is now owned by Adjutant M. V. Bouncy, and is used in the service 
of the local Armv Pusl. 



20 Soldiers^ and SaUors^ Monument. 

"^^dent of the Daj- called 
THE KOLL 



After which the 



HEBOIO DEAD. 



HAI^OVEB'S 

..^„ fame'. ^terna7^M^-^'32 to be fUc^." 

,HKrO..OWINOAKETHK.AMKSOKTHB 

SONS OF HANOVER, 
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE UNION, 

.r. OX THE M01.UMENT NOW DEDICATED 
..D WHICH AKE ^SC^^B- OK^.- ^ ^^^^^^^_ 



Joseph E. Wilder. 
Calvin S. Bailey. 

ALBERT E. BATES. 

Joshua E. Bates. 
Spencer Binney. 
Hiram B. Bonney. 
Levi C. Brooks. 
John H. Carey. 
William Church, Jr. 
Benjamin Curtis. 
Calvin C. Ellis. 

WINFIELD S. GURNEY. 



George R. Josselyn. 
John Laiskum. 
Marcus M. Leavitt. 
John W. Nelson. 

Arthur Shepard. 

Francis A. Stoddard. 

LoAMMi B. Sylvester. 

Joseph D. Thomas. 

John B. Wilder. 

Ferrin Willis. 

George W. Woodward. 



^f thP sons of Hanover, who, after 
The following are the "^"f "^/^''^'^^X/^f i^e Dnited States in 

sickness : — 



Walter M. Beal. 

HOSEA DWELLEY. 

Joseph S. Dwelley. 
PEREZ S. Goodrich. 

MINOT H. HAYDEN. 

JOSEPH M. Henderson. 
Henry D. Lovice. 

ALBERT G. MANN. 



Nathan S. Oakman. 
Otis B. Oakman. 

PHINEAS P. PETERSON. 

William Phillips. 
James E. Stetson. 

Christopher Stoddard. 

Martin C. Thayer. 



The Services of Dedication. 21 

" The muffled drum's sad roll has beat 

The soldiers' last tattoo: 
No more on life's parade shall meet 

That brave and fallen few. 
On Fame's eternal camping-ground 

Tlieir silent tents are spread, 
And Glory guards with solemn round 

The bivouac of the dead. 

Beneath tlieir parent turf they rest, 

Far from the gory field ; 
Borne to a Spartan mother's breast 

On many a bloody shield. 
The sunshine of their native sky 

Smiles softly on them here, 
And kindred eyes and hearts watch by 

The heroes' sepulchre. 

Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead! 

Dear as the blood ye gave : 
No impious footsteps here shall tread 

The herbage of your grave; 
Nor shall your glory be forgot 
^ While Fame her record keeps, 

Or Honor points the hallowed spot 

Where Valor proudly sleeps. 

Yon marble minstrel's voiceless stone 

In deathless song shall tell, 
When many a vanished year has flown. 

The story how ye fell. 
Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter's blight, 

Nor time's remorseless doom, 
Can dim one ray of holy light 

That gilds your glorious tomb." 

From "The Bivouac of the Dead," a poem by Theodore O'Hara, and read by him at 
the dedication of the Monument at Frankfort, Ky., over the dead of that State who fell at 
Buena Vista. 

The band then pla3'ed the doxologj'-, "Praise God, from Whom 
all blessings flow." 

After which the President of the Day pronounced the Apostolic 
Benediction : " The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love 
of God, and the fellowship of the H0I3' Ghost, be with us all ever- 
more. Amen." 



22 



Soldkrs' and Sailor.' Monuma^. 



IKTERMISSION. 

An intevmission until half-past «- oJ^J-W^^ ^^^ _^^^_^^,.,. „f 
AM the seni.es of dedicaUon «'- ^J'*;,,,., .uaractevlzed 
the taave men whom they ^"^^J^,,, ,te„ an h„uv. 

by brevity, the whole t,H,e -'«™-^ "^^'^J^,., ,e,e given tor the 
Before leaving the Monument, '«■"'> ^^ ^^ ,^, government of 

Governor, his statf, the other -^^^:^^ ^ Jent and Hon- 

the State, Major-Gen. B""''^''^ """^ ,uu<.uished guests. 

orable Artillery Company, and ^^'^^^ .,^„^ H,U. In the 
The line was re-formed, »' 7'^' " j,„y i,„ited guests, under 

lower room, tables were set f^/^, 'firurv lie D. Damon of North 

Ibe very efficient supervision of Mi. hum^ 

Maishfield. h„„„titul dinner was furnished, 

The most eKeellent and -''J ^°™X industrious and capable 

...epared, and served t" ^;|-^'^;,^ .flu^.ry slUU and hospila- 
„ives and daughters of the t"""' ^^^ appreciative guest . 

ble attentions were "-™ ^ "ommei d bj 1^^^^^^ button-hole 

At the side of each plate was plaee.l 
bouquet of cut flowers j^^,^^^ j,,„,o, o( Trinity 

Grace was said bj the »e i ■^Vorkhouse. 

Church, BHdgewater, aiK ChapUm o^^^^ ^^^ ^^^,^^ ^^ ^,^^ p,,3 

J^frXs'^^r "other distinguished guests occupied 

-rsr^^om, the «- r:^:-:-^---" 

-'»f r"'tdtotr?uX';::sons present at the dedi- 

Other bodies, and aiso i^i 

cation. kxebcises in the tent. 

tr Town Hall, a tent, 80 by HO, had been 
In a field adjacent to the Town HaU^ ^^^.^ ^^^^ ^^^^.^.^^^^^ ^^^h 

erected by Andrew F^"*^^'\f J^.^ laroe audience was comforta- 
seats, so that the greater pait of the la. 

bly accommodated. ^ j ^^.^^t from which the > 

A spacious platform at the -"^^ ^ ^^ '^^,,u,„t f.aciVities for 
„round gently sloped upward, .xffoidecl 

speaking and hearing. ._.,keis, invited guests, and other. 

On the Pl^'fo™;;;^, ' :, rJor tile press occnpyi.^ tables o. 
prominent persons , the lep ^^^ ^^^ j,,g,,t. 

tl,elett,andthebandoccupjmgap ! 



The Exercises in the Tent. 23 

The President's table was tastefull}' beautified witli bomiaets of 
flowers. 

A ver}' large and very ancient-looking chair, behind the Presi- 
dent's table, was intended for the occupancy of His Excellency the 
Governor ; but he ileclined to occupy it, as, in his judgment, the 
occupancy of it was a privilege which appertained to the office of 
the President of the Day. 

At half-past one o'clock, the bugle having sounded "The Assem- 
bly," the seats, and all the standing-room in the tent, were fully 
occupied by an interested and attentive audience of about fifteen 
hundred people. 

The President of the Day, in view of the large number of speak- 
ers and the limited amount of time at disposal, felt that justice to 
both those who were to speak and those who were to hear peremp- 
torily forbade the consuming of even a few minutes in the making 
of an introductory address, and consequently proceeded at once 
to the duties of the occasion. 

The President of the Day. — The time having arrived for the 
reading of Sentiments and the hearing of Responses, we now in- 
vite your attention to these features of the occasion which has 
called us together. 

Tlce First Soitiment. — "The Commonwealth of Massachu- 
setts." 

JJfwsic. —" Hail to the Chief." 

The President ok the Day. — At great personal inconvenience, 
and at the sacrifice of personal engagements, the distinguished 
gentleman who is to respond to this Sentiment has favored us with 
his welcome presence to-day. I now have the great honor and 
sincere pleasure of presenting to you His Excellency Alexander 
Hamilton Rice, LL.D., the Governor of the Commonwealth. 

His Excellency the Governor was received with much applause. 

The very eloquent and very impressive Response of the Governor 
was entirely extemporaneous. 

It is a source of great regret that the unintermitted press of 
the duties of his high otBce, so faithfully and conscientiously dis- 
charged, has prevented him from complying with the earnest request 
that he would write out for this Record his weighty and ennobling 
utterances. 



' 1 *^A thP rpDort of his Response given in 

He has, however, adopted the ^eport o ^^ ^^.^ _ 

u The Boston Post," as containing the substance o 

and that report is now given a place in these pages. 

KESPONSE OF HIS EXCELLE>^CY THE GOVERNOK. 

His Excellency said it was a very great gratification to 
him to be present, and to make his first visit to that ancient 
town under circumstances so peculiarly interesting, and so 
auspicious. He needed no assurance of the general excel- 
lence of the community. The comfortable and well-to-do 
appearance of every thing which the visitor found there the 
thrifty-looking homes, the evidences of comfort, the orderly 
community savoring of intelligence and of virtue the cor- 
dial greetings which the people give to strangers, all satisfied 
one in a moment that he was in the presence of a virtuous 
and intelligent community. It was extremely interesting 
to be present on a day so full of patriotic associations, 
to mingle his sympathies and his interest with them while 
they commemorated the deeds of valor, and recounted the 
names and the memory of those who shed their blood for 
their country, who offered their lives for its institutions. He 
felt well assured there could no exigency arise in our coun- 
try that would injure either its institutions or its liberties, so 
long as the people of different States are true to the trusts 
that are committed to their care. The people in New Eng- 
land and in Massachusetts were supposed to have some 
special responsibility in this particular, because, whether 
they deserve it or not, it is attributed to them that they 
have a very high type of American civilization. The pecu- 
liarities of that civilization lie in the individual characteris- 
tics of the people. We cannot have great, well-educated, 
patriotic, renowned countries, states, or communities, unless 



The Exercises in the Teiit. 25 

the individuals who compose them are in themselves respec- 
tively possessed of that intelligence and virtue which are 
the substance and ornaments of the best types of human 
character. He was well assured that in this town nothing 
was wanting to supply such characteristics. The long line 
of memories and i-ecords of this ancient town, stretching 
back for a hundred and fifty years, had been one of honor, 
patriotism, and virtue. If there were everywhere such com- 
munities, we should have a guaranty that in all coming 
time Massachusetts as a State would hold that proud posi- 
tion in the Union and among mankind wliich she has held 
ever since the day of" the organization of civil society on 
this territory. 

He was filled with emotion at what he had seen here. 
He had been among manj^ scenes of great pageantry in this 
and in other lands, where royalty has come forth with all its 
majestic and magnificent surroundings; where all the contri- 
butions of wealth and luxury, of art and of high position, 
have been brought in to give magnificent prominence to 
scenes of public parade. But to his mind all these were 
transcended by the beautiful, quiet, earnest, and pathetic 
simplicity with which yonder Monument had been dedicated 
to the memory of the heroic dead. The sentiment which is 
true, which is lasting, which is healthful, lies in the bosoms 
of those who share it. But he need not dwell altogether 
upon the memory of those whose deeds were commemorated 
by the Monument they had erected. There was one of their 
citizens, an aged and venerable patriot, whose acquaintance 
he made in the discharge of public duty at Washington a 
few years ago ; one of the noblest men who ever lived ; a 
patriotic and Christian gentleman, whose piety was only 



28 Soliieri ^^■^dj-^^l-^ji^^ 

e-l-Ued by W. >— r:;cm econd duty to H. coun.y . 
auty he felt to be to God ancl h ^^^^^ ^^^^,^ 

,„a l,e served them ''"f /'^^J'^ ,,.ost houvly wit- 
„,>t,atering diUgeuce. Be.ng a dady an ^^^^^^ ^^ ^^.^ 

„e. of .be ma„„e,. in wh.eh - ^ :^^^^^^^ ^^„, , .e.pect 

— :l.:ie,the...e.the.^^ \ 

Suuth. FuU of noble deeds and of paU.ot, ^^^ ^^^_^^_ 

of vntne and of tende.ne. as » Ufe .^, ^^^^ 

U,„g .hat was ^^^^Jf2.. infonned that "The 
this tathev passed upon hts son ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ 

Merritnae." had come d,..^^^^^^^^^^^ and that "The 

..The Cumbet and an T _^ g ^^.^ ^^^ ^^^^^^,^^,^ 

Congtess" bad f - ^ J « ^ ,^, ^„„,,,„,, u. the patriot- 

r:,r^-:n,isso..atb.;^^.-^-; 
«-ri;rTre"r;r:h"aHer^^^^^^ 

been killed. Ihe leco ^^ ^^ 

f „r.h •! euloo-y, ought to be loitjvc 
'"" ; V let he was bom: it ought to be forever 

*'^°°™.""r'^:;;e' young man in this town and in thts 
theinsptt-att^of eve = ^^ in bis hand whenever bis 

Commonwealth, to caii^^ 

country is in peril. ^^ 

c .• ..A u The President of the United States. 
The Second Sent iment .— i ^^e r i 
Tlfwsic — " The Star-spangled Banner." 

■^ . -v.nnistincc that one of the invited 

(,^^^jig^ one of the Seloctmc „ ..,t the time of hcr| 



The Exercises in the Tent. 27 

The following letter from the Hon. B. W. Harris, M.C. from 
the Second Congressional District of Massachusetts, was read : — 

East Bridgewater, July 12, 1878. 
The Rev. William Henry Brooks, D.D. 

Dear Sir, — : I have your several letters inviting me to attend 
the Dedication of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument at Hanover 
on the 17th inst. I have been unable until now to determine what 
m^' engagements would be on that daj-, and have not therefore 
replied, hoping to be able at last to give 3'ou a favorable answer, 
and to do mvself the favor of joining in the interesting ceremo- 
nies. I now find that a case for which I have been reserving the 
latter part of July will commence on Monday next, and will con- 
tinue until com|)leted, with a prospect of lasting two or three weeks. 
Unless there should be some postponement, it would be impossible 
for me to be with you on the 17th. I therefore deem it best to 
decline your kind and flattering invitation. I do so, hovvever, with 
regret ; for the occasion will doubtless be of deep interest to all 
uatriotic citizens. 

I am 3'ours \gv\ truly, 

B. W. Hauris. 

The President of the Day. — We have with us a distinguished 
guest, whose reputation as a Representative in the Congress of the 
United States from the Fifth District of Massachusetts,.as a Speaker 
of the National House of Representatives, as a Governor of this 
Commonwealth, and as a Major-General in the Arm}' of the Union, 
is wide-spread and well deserved ; who, invited here to speak on a 
topic kindred with the occasion, has very kindl}' consented, wdth 
but about an hour's notice, to speak instead on the second Senti- 
ment of the da}'. 

It atfords me great pleasure to present to you the Honorable 
Nathaniel P. Banks of Walthain. 

A copy of Gen. Banks's Response has been requested for pub- 
lication in this Record ; but none has been received. The follow- 
ing report of his Response is that given in " The Boston Post : " — 

RESPONSE OF GEN. N. P. BANKS. 

The second Sentiment was, "The President of the United 
States," to which the Hon. B. W. Harris was put down to re- 



28 Soldiers- and SaUors' Monument. 

"^ ^^Tw^himmn-etting his inability to be 

spend A letter, va^ read fto,nhuo.e„^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^^ 

present; and Gen. N. t. Banns selected by a 

Lad. The general said the -lub.t.on of a cU^e ^^^ ^ 

free people, charged with respons.bd.Ues ™d P^; ' ;, ,^^„ ,„a 
mnited period of time than thos "[^ZZCL of the Ameri- 
,vo„ld still be one of the great and «« gl-- ^^^ ^,„^, 
can people a«d a free government /'"<=; "J^^^i^,, devoted to 
adnnnistrations and .l,ose l.ves "^^d ''^" "^^f;,. ^connm,- 
the advancement of the »---- fl' ^ 'itng the greatest 
Washington, Jackson, and LnK^oU , _^^^_^^_ 

and most successful of those ^^^<' jTotZ shaU last, and 
,ies will endure as long as the '"^"■''y ._^ij^j,a, if „ot 

wbose exa>nple and influence w 11 "e & H ana „ 

copied, by other governments, as long as tbe .elat.on 
nation shall be continned. But "--- "^^^'^o^en by a party, 
these presidents for the past «™'"'-^' *''°"«'' ^"tratiol tl rough 

afree e^i^e can choose and create its rulers. They are en t d 
herc*re,'and he is entitled, to the respect »-' ^"Pl-^ of • cm- 
.ens of the Republic, without regard to P-^'-" f^ ^ j;;™ 
without regard to persona, or political opmu^^^i he le ■ 
this world hang, in a much larger degree h» -;- ,»^ ^ ,„',„„ , 
or measure, upon the conduct » ' - P^P^^^ °^ ,, t„e future, 
God has placed with us and in us all theie is ot V 



The Exercises in the Tent. 29 



for the perpetuity of republican institutions, and the extension 
universally throughout the world of those great principles which 
our government represents. If we be false to them, they will fail, 
for a time at least ; to be renewed after greater sacrifices and 
greater struggles even than those that our fathers or our own 
people have made. This day and this hour present to us duties 
more important, if possible, of more consequence to our own 
countij, if possible, and of greater moment to the nations that 
come after us, if possible, than any of those that have been per- 
formed by men of our own generation, or the fathers of the earlier 
history of our government. It is the confidence that I feel in the 
spirit, in the capacity, and in the power, of the people of the Re- 
public, that I lift my hands to heaven, and give thanks for the 
belief that the institutions and the principles that have been 
reared with so much sacrifice and sorrow will be maintained for- 
ever, for our own advantage, and for the advantage of all the 
nations of the world. 

The Third Sentiment. — " The Army of the United States." 

Music. — " Hail Columbia." 

The following letter was read : — 

Headquarters, Department of the South, 

Newport Barracks, Ky., July 13, 1878. 

Dear Dr. Brooks, — Many thanks for jowv letter inviting me 
to be present at the meeting in Hanover, Mass., to dedicate the 
Monument there to the soldiers and sailors of that town killed or 
dead in the service of their country, and to respond to the toast 
to be given on that occasion, — " To the Army of the United 
States." 

Your letter reached me in Plymouth as I was leaving for this 
place, to which my headquarters have just been transferred from 
New Orleans, and, I am very sorry to say, must have been left 
there with other papers now greatly needed ; so that, in fact, I do 
not quite remember the date of this ceremou}-, but believe it to be 
about the 20th instant. 

I am ver}' sorr}-, for many reasons, that I cannot possibly be 
present. It would be particularly pleasant to me to renew the 
agreeable associations of my brief visit there last year. 



^0 Soldieri and Sailors Monument^ 

. ] ZTf^y 1 soldier to see liis coun- 

It is also a pleasant thing, alwajs fo. ^ ""^'^^ ,f 

t,.vnK.„ testifying their regard and - ^ "/'^ "onntry, it is 
generally it is s«eet and "7™"= .^» ^Mftappens to come 
^articniarly so, and even '^^^^^'^^[^l^.o eaveW to 
■„.n, Massachusetts; for surely "° .*'f '* " ,^3 of ^er faithful 
,.eco..ni.e and perpetuate the memories and wtues 
'::, gaUant soldiers as that ^-' ^:-— ^monuments attest- 
Her cities and village chnrchyards are full ol ^^^ 

i„„atonce the devotion and patnotrsm of her chrLlre 
„;„ gratitude and appreciation ''\'\'l'^'^''2^.■,tion and exten- 
Peacefnl themselves, and devoted ^^J^^lTLmy and ener- 
sion of peaceful pursuits, no people -« ™° ^^ ,„i, ,,,,,,,,, 
getically responded to the call of wa,, »' " « ^^,' ,3 3„„btful 

;ere involved, or great princplcs were rn 1« ' "" ^^^^^, ^ ,^, 
if there is a great battle-field in our count,} not 

w „j nf ■! soldier from Massachusetts, 
generous blood of .1 ^°1*^' ''° ,,„j h„„or of those men 

In building monuments to the mtmoij a „iaddens 

::r;;':^'r:,r^xi.o:;;u„t^. ooo 

Bless tiik Commonwealth of Massachusetts! 
Very respectfulh', 

Your obedient servant, 

C. C. Augur, Brig.-Gen. U.S.A. 

7 c ,• ...t i.The^'avYof the United States." 
The Fourth Sentiment. — me x^.l^:) ^ 

^,„, Hay —I am very happy to present to 

T„. !'---;,;■; ™„'';,,,,,uLplain, the duties of whose 

you a reverend & "' ^"^^ompatiine with the du 

o,„ce are c.vd a. K, e * , mp ^^^^ ^_^ ^^.^^^ ^^^^^.^^_ 

::!:"^^ "-V - «- ^-- ^-"■^- ^- ''''"'"^ "''"^'^'" ' 

U.S.N-, now residing in Scitnate. 

KESPOKSE OF CHAPLAIN BIBBEN. 

MR PBBS,DEN-r AND FELLOw-C.Tr.Exs, - When I was a boy of 
wteen or flfteen vears of age, I remember that everybody seemed 

o have a™ «* '" '"^ '^^■"•'"'""= P™'"" ' ". ""■»''""{ °r 
to haxe ni Q ".,(,„«,, orofore," as we called- 

Tern :rrst,t:d si' impressed my n.ind with the fact that the 



The- Exercisei< in th; Tent. 31 

question of self-government was settled for all time to coine by 
what they were pleased to call '' this successful experiment of oin- 
fathers," that it seemed to ray mind little less than treason for 
any one to call in question the everlasting peace and prosperity of 
the American Union. Nevertheless the eventful years of revolu- 
tion and civil war came upon us ; and notwithstanding the disposi- 
tion to self-glorification, said to be so characteristic of the Anglo- 
Saxon, there began to be dreadful misgivings in all our hearts, 
whether or not, after all, •■' we were," as a nation, "long for this 
world." By the blessing of God, we survived the beating storm of 
rebellion that threatened our destruction. We came out of the 
contest exhausted, and bleeding at every pore, yet triumphant. 
Republican government, peace, and union are restored from ocean 
to ocean, — from the Ohio River to the Gulf of Mexico. 

When we consider the immense proportions of the Rebellion, — 
extending over thirteen States of the Federal Union, — the surprise 
is not that the Union armies and navies were so long a time in 
restoring the authority of the Federal Government, but rather that, 
under all the circumstances, there were patriotism and power and 
pluck given us to do it at all. It was a marvellous achievement. 

There is, perhaijs. no page of History in the past that has re- 
vealed, there probably will be none in the future that Avill reveal, 
an example of more gigantic effort, of more noble and unconquera- 
ble resolution, on the part of a nation in support of Government. 
And may I not, without boasting, say here to-day, that the Ayneri- 
can Navy bore no inconsiderable part in the great struggle for the 
nation's life? My mind even now reverts to the achievements of 
the Navy in the West, under Admiral Foote at Belmont, Fort 
Henry, Fort Donelson, and Shiloh, that opened the way for 
Grant's armies into the enemies' territories, and compelled them 
to evacuate Columbus, more formidable than the celebrated Mala- 
koff of the Russians. 

These were comparatively obscure acts of the Navy, unknown, 
maybe, to man}- who hear me to-day. Yet were the}' weighty in 
results. 

But it is of course impossible, in the few moments allotted me 
to-day, to attempt a recital of the achievements of the Nav}- during 
the progress of the Rebellion. 

Moreover, for the most part, it would be but the telling of an 



32 Soldiers' and Sailors Monument. 

^Jd^i7^,T^itnlate them, - those chivalrous deeds, familiar to 
"merican's chool-boy ; the Nation's proudest inheritance, and 

immortal as the Nation's life. Hnmn- 

Who has not heard the story of - The Cumberland ^ ^^^ 
ton Roads,-how she fought the iron ^- Merrunack ^'^^l^ 
were ingulfed, and then went down, her tlag stdl defiantly floatmg 

at the mast-head? „ . 

Many who hear me to-day remember with sorrow the sad fate of 
-The Tecumseh" in Mobile Bay; and we can almost fanc3 that 
we see the brave Craven, officers, and crew, every man at his 
post, descending to their watery shroud. We also I trust ..U 
ever cherish and honor the names of Farragut, and Wuislow, and 
Smith, and Porter, and Rowan, and Thatcher, and Worden and the 
other heroes, living and dead, who stood by the old flag and 
bravely fought for the Union. A great and prosperous nation s 
proudest inheritance is the record of the glorious and patrioUc 
deeds of her sons. The nation may indeed die; but the noble, 
patriotic action of her sons will live on. , y^ • ^ 

It has been said that republics are ungrateful. It is true, 
fellow-citizens, that in times of peace and prosperity we are prone 
to forcret the deeds that we valued as priceless when war and 
actuafdanger threatened us. Selfishness gets the better of our 
patriotism and gratitude, and on occasions such as this we are 
tempted to ask, "What is all this worth? and wherefore spend 
money for that which is not bread? " _ _ 

But all history teaches, that if we let this spirit of true patriotic 
appreciation and acknowledgment of patriotic deeds die out, or be 
crushed out, of the hearts of the people, the nation, however rich 
and powerful, will degenerate and perish. Where now are he 
brilliant glories of the Greek? Where is that daring spirit that 
smote the proud Persian with terror at Thermopyh-e, and snatched 
victory from his grasp in the Gulf of Salamis? Dead ! -crushed 
beneath the iron heel of heartless and selfish despotism ! 

Beautiful heritage of the free and brave, shall such a fate as this 
be thine? Shall our cultivated fields, our countless villages, our 

X A noteworthy incident of the day was the presence of Zavan Phillips and Philip W^.ks 
both of Hanover, two of the L^allant crew of the United-State-s screw sloop-of-wai Kear- 
!°!e'' CO Zanded bv the intrepid Capt. John A. Winslow at the time of her engagement 
Slh^rp" Alabama" in Cherbourg Bay, June 19, 1864, when, after a confl.ot of one 
hour and t^n minutes, the Confederate vessel sunk like lead beneath the waves. 



The Exercises in the Tent. S3 

mighty cities, fall beiieatti the heel of the destro3'er's power, 
and live only in name and in ruins? God of our fathers, give to 
us all — East, West, North, South — the spirit of true, loft}', 
and unfading patriotism, and then may we fearlessl}^ and confi- 
dently hope that the eagle upon our banner, that has hitherto 
guided us to victory against foreign and domestic foes, shall never 
behold one dark spot in the starry firmament that shines around 
him, but bear tliem all onward forever, the ever-glowing emblem 
of that Union which the Nav}' will be ever read}' to defend, and 
which none hut ourselves can ever destroy ! 

The Fifth Sentiment. — " The Armv of the Old Colon}-, and its 
Captain-General Myles Standish." 

The President of the Day. — It is a happy circumstance for 
us that we have among our distinguished guests a gentleman whose 
knowledge of the history of our country' exceeds, if possible, his 
knowledge of other departments of learning. 

I am sure that 3'ou will be thankful to me for now introducing 
the Hon. J. B. D. Cogswell, the President of the Senate of this 
Commonwealth. 

A copy of the Hon. Mr. Cogswell's Response has been requested 
for publication in this Record ; but none has been received. 

The following abstract of his Response is taken from "The 
Boston Advertiser : " — 

PRESIDENT Cogswell's response. 

The Hon. J. B. D. Cogswell, President of the Senate, replied 
to " The Army of the Old Colony, and its Captain-General Myles 
Standish." President Cogswell spoke with much familiarity with 
the colonial histor}- of Pl}'mouth, and the brave deeds of the cap- 
tain of the Pilgrim army. He also spoke of his own ancestry and 
his descent from the earl}' Pilgrims, and of the services of his 
grandfather in the expedition against Louisburg. He mentioned 
the practical worth of the Puritan fathers, the many brave deeds 
of Standish, the vigorous line of his descendants in this country, 
while the English branch has become extinct, and closed with an 
eloquent picture of the inspiration the name of Standish may yet 
be in the dark days of the Republic. 

The Sixth Sentiment. — " Patriotic Citizenship." 



Soldiers and Sailors Monument. 



The President of the Day. -We enjoy the privilege of 
having with us to-duy one whom we are gUi.l to recognize as a 
distinguished neighbor, and proud to claim as a vahied fnend, 
and whom I present to you with very great satisfaction -the 
Hon. John D. Long, Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Rep- 
resentatives. 

RESPONSE OF SPEAKER LONG. 

You have given me, Mr. President, the best toast ; for it em- 
braces all the rest. The nation, the state, the army, the navy, the 
town, are not the material organizations that go under those 
names : they are nothing if not the expression of a fine ideal, in- 
visible to the outer sense, and yet constituting the very substance 
of the heart and conscience, — the ideal of a patriot's duty to his 
country Well may the town of Hanover, which a twelvemonth 
ac^o celebrated its one hundred and fifty years of fidelity to the 
cFvil and religious principles of the compact in the cabin of "The 
Mayflower," and paid tribute to its line of heroic citizens who 
durino- all those years made its history illustrious with examples 
of vimie and patriotism, and which to-day dedicates this noble 
Monument to the dead heroes who died in the war for the preserva- 
tion of the Union and the equal rights of man, -well may such 
a town otfer the toast, "Patriotic Citizenship," of which it has 
itself been a shining and a faithful instance. 

And yet I would not dismiss the sentiment in a rhetorical flour- 
ish. Patriotic citizenship means something else than a fine sound- 
ing period in which to balloon a compliment, or inflate the usual 
American brag. It means downright personal devotion to the 
political salvation of the country ; a religious sense of obligation 
to the duty of comprehending and discharging the citizen's duty ; 
and a solemn conviction of the gigantic responsibilities that go 
with, and the fulfilment of which can alone insure, republican 
citizenship. A subtle alarm is in the air, stealing into the nerves 
of men who sit in studies, that American democracy, with its 
equal citizenship and its universal suffrage, is a failure. So it is 
to them who, looking narrowly, see something gone of a golden 
ncre in which once the favored few shared all, but forget that to 
the once neglected many there have come growth out of bondage, 
illumination out of darkness, enlargement out of pinch. They see 



The Exercises in the Tent. 85 

tlie froth on the top of the hissing caldron, and forget that 
beneath it the whole mass is stirring to a purer activit}'. Yet 
Heaven knows how thick the dangers are ; and, if the feai's of those 
Avho bode ill shall prick us to a quicker charge and a braver front 
against the perils that threaten republican government and republi- 
can institutions, the lesson will not be lost. The wisdom and the 
sacrifices of the fathers gave us this citizenship. The}' whose 
memory we honor to-day preserved it, and gave their lives for it. 
Let us see to it that in our generation we too be worth}' of it 
by maintaining it pure and patriotic, — a blessing, not a curse. 
If wild gusts of violence and frenzy, the terrorisms of riot, the 
upheaval of rights of property, the pandemonium of mobs, threaten 
to ingulf it, let our steady loyalty to law and order, our intelli- 
gent respect for the sacred rights of life, libertj', and propert}', be 
a rampart that no assault can shake. If corruption in politics, if 
greed and prostitution of office, if infidelity to public trust, if 
evasion of public or private debt, if dishonest finance, if the 
shirk and the charlatan, threaten to bring it to dishonor, let us root 
them out. If intemperance threaten to debase it, let our example 
help build up that overwlielming public sentiment, which, it is said, 
can alone stamp out that evil. Like all other duties, the duty 
of patriotic citizenship, in its ultimate analj'sis, is a personal dut}', 
and a charge upon the individual conscience, — no man so poor or 
ignorant or humble, no child so young, as to evade it. See to it 
that that duty is done and that charge kept by each of j'ou, and 
the like of you everywhere, by jou, young men, especiall}-, and the 
leaven will then so leaven the whole lump, the work of the mass 
education will catch such a new impulse from its summits, — and 
on the constant, unfaltering, undiscouraged education of the 
masses can we alone rely, — that we shall hear no more the Jere- 
miads of those who see, in the beginning of our second century of 
national life, only the canker-blight of failure and death ; and we 
shall work out the true reform, not b}' curtailing the privileges and 
franchise of any class that we think inferior to our own, but by 
such an exemplary and patriotic exercise on our own part of the 
privileges and franchise of a common citizenship, shared by all 
alike, that the influence of one good man shall multipl}' a thou- 
sand-fold, and the right shall lead and prevail b}' virtue of the 
simple but sure law, that truth and good need onh' to assert them- 
selves to be foremost, and to have their wa}'. 



36 Soldiers' and Sailors' 3Ionument. 



The Seventh Sentiment. — " The Ancient and Honorable Artil- 
lery Company of Massachusetts." 

The following letter was read : — t i^ m ists 

° Boston, July 10, la <o. 

Dear Sir, — Yonvs of the 10th ult., extending an invitation 
to me to be present upon the occasion of the dedication of the 
Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument at Hanover, was duly received. 
I have delayed answer, hoping to be able to accept ; but unavoid- 
able absence from the State compels me to decline the honor and 
pleasure of participating in the ceremonies. Thanking you for 
the kind invitation, I have the honor to be, 

Your obedient servant, 

Charles B. Whittemore, 

Adjt. A. and H. Artillery Co. 
The Kev. William Henry Brooks, D.D., Hanover, Mass. 

The President of the Day.— On the 3d of June last this 
organization celebrated its two hundred and fortieth anniversary, 
having been formed in the year 1638. 

It is the offspring of the " Honorable Artillery Company^' of 
London, incorporated by a charter bearing date Aug. 25, 1537, in 
the twenty-nintii year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth. 

I respectfully ask the officers of this venerable body here present 
to rise, and to remain standing while the band plays ^'God Save 
the King," in recognition of their relation to the mother-country, 
and the'flag presented to the Hanover Rifle Company in 1820 is 
unfurled and waved, as a tribute of honor to the venerable com- 
pany from its comparatively juvenile sister, born about 1816. 

The officers rose, and remained standing during the playing of 
the hymn, and the waving of the flag by the detail from tlie local 
Array Post, comrades R. M. Sturtevant and J. C. Bates. This 
episode was one of the most interesting and impressive incidents 
in the entire celebration. 

The President of the Day. — That the commissioned officers 
of this renowned military organization should have graced this 
day's observance with their presence is deserving of our grateful 
acknowledgment, which must needs be increased when the noble 
commander of that body, who has rendered gallant and valuable 



The Exercises in the Tent. 37 

service, even to the shedding of his blood, in the war for the 
Union, shall have responded to the sentiment already read. 

Allow me the pleasant privilege of presenting to 3'ou Col. Angns- 
tus P. Martin of Boston. 

RESPONSE OF COL. A. P. MARTIN. 

Mr. President, Comrades, Ladies and Gentlemen, — The oc- 
casion that has brought us together to-daj' is one that calls forth 
the tenderest emotions of all liberty-loving people throughout the 
length and breadth of this country. We have assembled here to 
dedicate with grateful hearts, and to consecrate with eternal grati- 
tude, tliis beautiful Monument, as a token of our appreciation of 
the valor, heroic achievements, and fidelity of the departed heroes 
of the late war whose names are inscribed on that granite shaft ; 
and to add, with our voice and by our presence, our slight tribute 
to their acknowledged worth, — a tribute, though slight, 3'et I 
trust not altogether valueless, coming as it does from the friends 
and countr3'meu and comrades of those who so freely offered 
their lives for the Union of the States and the liberties of man- 
kind. 

Friends, the graves 3'ou are honoring here to-day are no ordinary 
graves, where sleep beneath those sods the prostrate forms of 
noble men whose patriotic hearts, filled with such true devotion, 
nerved them on, in defence of a just and righteous cause, to vic- 
tory or to death. 

We cannot forget in this connection the thousands upon thou- 
sands of our brave comrades who fell upon the sanguinary fields 
of the late civil war, manj' of whose graves are marked to-da^^ 
"•unknown ; " man}' of whom were not even accorded the rites of 
a Christian burial ; and all of whom were denied the hand of kin- 
dred to smooth their d3-ing pillow, and to catch from the pallid lips 
the last fond sigh of those nearest and dearest to them on earth. 
Yet, wherever life lingered after the fatal wound had been received, 
kind and devoted friends, associates, and comrades were there to 
watch, not with a mother's love, — ah, no ! that could not be, — 
but with the love and sorrow of brothers to watch over the closing 
scene, and minister to the departing struggle as they passed behind 
the awful curtain of the unknown to the abodes of more than mor- 
tal freedom, leaving behind them the memory of their gallant 



38 Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument. 

deeds, which, " like moonbeams on the storm}- sea, lights up our 
darkened hearts, and lends to the surrounding gloom a beaut}' so 
sad, 3'ct so sweet, that we Avould not, if we could, dispel the dark- 
ness that surrounds it." 

I am here to-day to speak for the Ancient and Honorable Artil- 
lery Company of Massachusetts, which I have the honor to com- 
mand, and especially to represent on this occasion: an organiza- 
tion which is inseparably connected with the incipient efforts of the 
founders of our independence, and which has been the means of 
handing down to us, through the vista of ages, the military spirit 
which animated that disinterested patriotism, and that dauntless 
devotion to principle, of a band of resolute men, who gave us a 
free and independent nation. 

It seems to me eminently proper and appropriate that the oldest 
military organization in this country — antedating by nearly a 
century the incorporation of this ancient town — should be repre- 
sented on an occasion like this, not because of any special service 
rendei'ed as an organization in the late war, — though man}' individ- 
ual members volunteered their services, several of whom sacrificed 
their lives in the great cause, while hundreds of the survivors are 
now enrolled among our members, — but because the liberty which 
was won for us from a foreign foe, and bequeathed to us by such 
men as composed the active membership of our organization dur- 
ing the period of the Revolution, was in danger, and, in the hour 
of need, these veterans, who now lie silentl}' sleeping in their new- 
made graves, stood shoulder to shoulder, battling manfully in 
defence of the principles and achievements of our fathers 
with a spirit that all the trained armies of Europe could not 
subdue. 

Time will not permit, nor does the occasion require me, to go 
into details concerning the history- of the Ancient and Honorable 
Artiller}' Compau}-, except to say that it has been a school from 
which hundreds have risen to distinction during the early period 
of the history of this countr}'. One of the most prominent of its 
ancient commanders was Major-Gen. John Winslow, of the neigh- 
boring town of Marshfield, whose portrait adorns this occasion. 
(A portrait of Major-Gen. Winslow Avas here shown to the audience 
by Lieut. George H. Allen, Clerk and Assistant Paymaster of the 
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company.) 



The Exercises in the Tent. 39 

AVliitman's History of the Ancient and Honorable Artiller^^ 
Coinpan}', published in 1842, says, — 

" Major-Gen. John Winslow, Marshfield, Husbandman, Cap- 
tain of the Artillery Company. He was grandson to Gov. Josiah 
Winslow of Plymouth Colon}', and earl}' in life became a military 
character. In 1740 he commanded a company sent to Cuba.^ 
He was major-general in the British line, and had the chief com- 
mand of several expeditions to Kennebec, and of the Provincial 
forces at Fort Edward in 1757." 

Hutchison says, " He was younger brother to Capt. Josiah, and 
jiossessed the same martial spirit. He was Judge of the Common 
Pleas, and died at Hingham in April, 1774, aged sevent^'-one. His 
portrait, with those of his ancestors, are in the Massachusetts 
Historical Library. His sword is now transmitted in the family. 
His bravery was proverbial, and his reputation as an officer 
excellent." 

Whitman also says in his Histor}' that " The Ancient and Hon- 
orable Artiller}' Company has been the germ from which all our 
militar}' character in New England, if not in the United States, 
has sprung ; and to the formation of this ancient Company may, 
therefore, justly be attributed the decided superiority of the New- 
England citizen soldier}'." 

It was the stern and gallant heroes of the Revolution that have 
given us such prosperity as a nation in the past ; and it is the blood 
of a hundred thousand martyrs of the war of the Rebellion, with 
their surviving comrades, that gives us such a prospect for the 
future, vouchsating to our children's children an undivided and 
unbroken country. 

The Eighth Sentiment. — "Our Unreturned Soldiers." 

Music. — ' ' Pleyel' s Hymn . " 

The President of the Day. — I see before me a fellow-towns- 
man whose interest in the soldiers from Hanover, while in the field, 
was deep and constant, and who, moreover, has manifested an 
earnest desire that the precious memory of those of that heroic 

' This company was enlisted in the county of Plymouth ; and there must have been in it 
quite a number from Hanover, as the town-records show that the remission of the rates of 
those ^v-ho went from Hanover amounted to about fifty pounds, and that not less than seven 
allusions are made to those " gone to Cuba." 



40 Soldiers and Sailors Monument. 



band who have "returned no more, nor have seen their native 

country," but in distant parts of our hmd rest 

" Beneath the low green tents 
Whose curtains never outward swing," 

shall not be allowed either to wither or fade. 

It is ray pleasant duty to introduce to you the Hon. Edward Y. 
Perry, the President of the Hanover Branch Railroad. 

RESPONSE OF THE HON. E. Y. PEKUY. 

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, — 1 am glad that I 
have lived until this hour. 

I am glad that I have lived to see that Shaft erected, and con- 
secrated to the memory of those of our townsmen, our neighbors, 
and our brothers, whose familiar names are inscribed on that 
enduring granite, who volunteered to defend their Country at 
the time" of its direst need, and went with alacrity to the War, but 

did not return. 

A Nation or a State that does not honor and compensate its 
soldiers, who have fought its battles, won its victories, and 
secured its existence and its safety, is not worthy to be called a 
Nation or a State. 

A Government that does not honor and cherish the memory ot 
those who have fallen in its defence, and carefully nourish and 
protect those who depended on those fallen ones for support, is 
unworthy the name of a Government, and will not and ought not 

to continue. 

A Municipality that is too poor or too parsimonious to cherish 
the memory of its citizen soldiers, who have tbught and died in 
defence of a common cause, is unworthy to enjoy the blessings of 

civil liberty. , , • i 

I do not stand here to-day to indulge in oratorical platitudes or 

patriotic rhapsodies, but only to utter a fesv sentences that seem to 

me to be true, appropriate, and important. 

That Granite Shaft is the Orator of this Day. That 

monumental structure is far more suggestive, far more eloquent, 

than any one standing on this platform to-day ; and it becomes us 

to listen carefully to its teachings. 

What is it saving to us to-day? It is not telling us of the 

patriotism of these fallen heroes. It is not telling us of their love 

of Country, or its Flag. 



The Mvercises in the Tent. 41 



Patriotism, or love of country, isolated from all other considera- 
tions, is but little elevated above brute instinct. The dog will 
fight for his master, his property, and his home ; the cock will 
defend his own yard ; and millions and millions of soldiers, as 
brave as those that stone commemorates, have fought and died for 
their country and its flag, knowing nothing, and caring nothing, 
for the right or the wrong of the contest in which the}' were 
engaged. Not so, not so, with the bi'ave boys whose names are 
engraved on j'onder Shaft. 

The lesson this Shaft will teach to the ages is not so much of 
patriotism, not so much of love of country, not so much of love for 
the old Star-spangled Banner, as it is of devotion to princii)le, to 
human rights, to the equality of all before the law, to equal 
suffrage, to an equal chance for education, and an equal chance to 
secure all the rights, the privileges, and blessings of civilization 
and Christianit}- ; and all these without any let or hinderance on 
account of color, race, or condition, and I wish I could sa}', sex. 

If this Shaft does not teach this lesson to the ages, it will not 
teach them any thing worth teaching. Far better to have let it 
rest in its granite bed. 

The war in which these soldiers fought was a war of principle 
against sophistry-, equal rights against oppression, liberty against 
slaver}', heaven against hell ; and I stand here to-day to ntter 
my humble protest, my most anxious and earnest protest, in the 
name of these returned and unreturned soldiers, against these dis- 
tinctions ever being forgotten, or ignored, or blotted out. 

Mr. President, I am grieved, I am disgusted, I am indignant, in 
view of the shameful sentiment that is abroad to palliate, to 
smooth over, to cover up these awful distinctions, these tei-rible 
characteristics of the war, and thereb}- to rob these brave soldiers 
of their true glory, — 

A sentiment that proposes to depreciate and undervalue the 
cause in which these soldiei's fought, and, correspondingly, to elevate 
and falsel}' estimate the objects and aims of the Rebellion, thereby 
to corrupt and debauch the record of our times, and send down to 
the ages the history of this great contest, demoralized, emasculated, 
by the infamous falsehood, that these combatants, on either side, 
— those who fought to destro}' the Union, and those who fought to 
sustain it. — were equally patriotic, equally meritorious, equally 



42 Soldiers' and Sailors'' Monument. 



libertv-loving, and eqiiall}' deserving tlie gratitude and the plaudit 
of the lovers of liberty and the race ; in other words, a sentiment 
that proposes to conciliate tmrepentant rebels. 

This phase of conciliation is nothing new under the sun. It is 
as old as the histor}- of the race. Individuals and nations have 
been trying, during all these centuries, to conciliate the Devil; 
but the Devil has beat them every time. His Satanic Majesty is too 
shrewd, too craft}-, too cunning, ever to be foiled in the use of his 
own weapons. Conciliate rebels? conciliate the murderer, con- 
ciliate the thief and the burglar, conciliate the midnight assassin ! 
For I tell vou, Mr. President, that this war of the Rebellion was all 
these, and more. Was not your property stolen by the wholesale? 
Were not your cities and villages sacked, burnt, and destroyed? 
Were not these martyr-boys murdered? Are not their bones 
bleaching to-da}* at Antietam, in the Wilderness, and under the 
walls of Andersonville ? The strong arm of the government, the 
law, is for such criminals, and not conciliation. These Southern 
rebels, like their master before spoken of, will beat yon at con- 
ciliation every time. 

Of what use is a government if it does not protect the oppressed 
from the oppressor? Of what earthly use is a government unless 
it is strong enough, and willing enough, to protect all its citizens 
in the enjoyment of their rights? 

A strong and just government will stand ; a weak, a vacillat- 
ing, a conciliating government, will fail. And if conciliation of 
the oppressor, and not the full and equal protection of the op- 
pressed, is to be the policy of this Government, then this Nation is 
destined to be broken into fragments like the states of the South- 
ern Continent. 

History always repeats itself, somebody says. In other words, 
like causes, under like circumstances, always produce like results. 

Now, sir, why are those names inscribed on yonder Shaft? Why 
did those brave boys volunteer to defend their Country ? Whv did 
those Southern States rebel? Because they loved caste. Because 
they loved an aristocracy of wealth, learning, and power, which has 
always been the outgrowth of caste ; and caste for six thousand 
years has been the Devil's right bower. Because they loved op- 
pression, and hated human rights. Because they loved slavery, 
and hated liberty. Because they loved a heathenish barbarism, 
and hated a Christian civilization. 



The Exercises in the Tent. 43 

Now, sir, have these rebels changed ? Not a whit. They will 
change when the leopard changes his spots. The}- have the same 
sentiments to-da}', the same fell purpose to rule or ruin, that thev 
had when they fired on Sumter. 

It is only a question of time. The babe is already born who 
will witness a fiercer contest, a more terrible effort to throw off 
the restraint' of a just and humane government, and establish on 
its ruins, over all that fair Southern land, a government, the 
corner-stone of which shall be caste and oppression. 

Your children's children will volunteer to put down this second 
rebellion. Another Shaft will be erected, on which will be in- 
scribed the names of those who will also go 'with alacrity to the 
war. but will not return. 

No earthl}' influence can avert such a calamity, unless this 
Government awakes from its silly dream, rises from this lap of 
Delilah, stands up erect in the strength of its yet unshorn locks, 
shakes itself free and clear from this nightmare of conciliation, and 
lays its heavy hand on all the States of this Union, and says to 
them, in language that they can understand, appreciate, and fear, 
" Henceforth the Constitution of these United States shall be re- 
spected ; henceforth its provisions shall be carried out ; henceforth, 

THROUGHOUT THE LENGTH AND BREADTH OF THIS BROAD LAND, 
ALL ITS CITIZENS, HOWEVER POOR, HOWEVER ABJECT, OF WHATEVER 
COLOR, RACE, OR CLIME, SHALL BE PROTECTED IN THE ENJOYMENT OF 
ALL THE RIGHTS, PRIVILEGES, AND BLESSINGS OF A REPUBLICAN GOV- 
ERNMENT." 

The President of the Day. — " True friendship's rule is 'to 
welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.' " 

As we have enjoyed the great privilege of the first part, it now 
becomes our regretful duty to comply with the second part of this 
ancient rule. 

After the Response has been made to the next Sentiment, the 
guests from Boston will be compelled to depart, in order to take 
the train. 

I beg leave to thank most heartily His Excellency the Governor, 
and our other distinguished guests, for their welcome presence and 
acceptable service here this da}'. 

Two hundred and forty-eight years ago a Governor passed 



44 Soldiers and Sailors Monument. 



through Hanover. Whether or not one lias been here since that 
time, 1 cannot saj. 

We would be verj- grateful if His Excellenc}-, before leaving, 
would promise to visit us ever^^ summer. 

His Excellency the Governok. — I promise, if alive, to come 
to Hanover two hundred and fort3'-eight years from to-day. 

This repl}- caused very great merriment. 
The Ninth Sentiment. — " The Press." 

The President of the Day. — In the year 168 B.C. the Roman 
Government established a dailv paper, which was called Acta 
Populi Romani Diuraa. 

There were short-hand reporters, too, in those da3's. 

Suetonius has an account of the anger of Augustus, because the 
speech of Caesar for Metellius was badl}' reported ; and from other 
writers of the day we learn that there was a " ring of reporters 
who collected news, and sent it into the provinces." 

I trust that no Augustus will be angered by the bad reporting 
of the speech of an^- Caesar to whom we have this day listened. 

The Response to the Sentiment just read is to be made by a gen- 
tleman who was to have made one of the addresses at the cele- 
bration, last 3'ear, of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary 
of the Incorporation of this Town. We were deprived of the 
expected pleasure of then hearing him, owing to the necessity of 
his earh' leaving in order to take the train. 

I am happ3' now to present to you Mr. George W. Penniman, of 
" The Boston Globe." 

RESPONSE OF MR. GEORGE VT. PENNIMAN. 

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, — For a speaker to in- 
terest an intelligent audience, three things at least are requisite, — 
the subject-matter, presented with fitting language and eloquence. 
Had I the language of a Dryden, and the eloquence of a Webster, 
I should ask for no more intelligent audience to appreciate than 
one to be found in the Old Colony. While I have been unwilling, 
my friends, to wholly decline the request of 3'our honored Presi- 
dent upon this occasion, yet I still deeply feel, as I have before, 



The Exercises in the Tent. 45 



that any words of mine might well be spared upon this occasion. 
You have come from your homes and 3our schools, from the places 
of toil, and the busy scenes of common life, while the town keeps 
holidaj', to dedicate this memorial Shaft to the memory of the 
loved ones of 3'our homes, whose constant valor sustained upon 
the battle-field the cause of freedom and equal rights to all of 
God's children. Do you need urging in this glorious and grateful 
work? No. As has been trul}^ said b}' a distinguished orator, 
Too dear is the memory of the men you honor, too precious are the 
deeds which this time recalls, too near to your hearts lies this im- 
pressive service, to make the words of man needful for the quick- 
ening of your spirit or the enlisting of your sympathies. The men 
whom 3'ou honor to-da}- did not enter into the civil war until their 
services were needful for the defence of the Union, when they ral- 
lied, not for conquest, not for triumph, not for gain, but for the 
maintenance of libert}^ for the unity of the States, and for equal 
rights to each and ever}- inhabitant of the United States : the^- per- 
illed all, and struggled, sutfered, and died. What could have been 
more self-sacrificing than the lives of our honored dead? Home 
was as dear to them as to us, peace as pleasant, life as sweet. 
They lie to-day, some here among the ones whom thej' loved the 
best, some where j'ou, gentlemen of the Grand Army of the Repub- 
lic, laid them in Southern fields, and hundreds of your citizens lie 
in unknown graves, while you, noble patriots, are here to-da}-. 
Gentlemen, as it is not wealth, rank, or social position, that con- 
stitutes the true glory of a state, but noble, patriotic, and high- 
souled men, this nation shall always prize you as among her 
brightest jewels ; and, though those who knew j'on and loved you 
in the days of yore maj- soon pass away, rest assured you shall be 
known and honored long after the clods of the valley have been 
heaped upon your tomb. Whose heart does not throb with thank- 
fulness, and beat with a desire to give expression to its grateful 
admiration? Private munificence has adorned, with the costly 
mausoleum and the sculptured stone, the places where a few more 
favored than the rest repose. It is well. Let family pride honor 
those who have brought glory to the name. It is also fitting that 
the people as a whole should erect to this whole company of hon- 
ored dead one memorial, to preserve the names and do honor to 
those who sacrificed all for the common advantage of having the 



46 Soldiers' and Sailors Monument. 

country saved for union and liberty. Comrades of the dead, 5'ou 
are now satisfied with the honors given your brothers ; and 3'ou, 
whose homes have become desolate as one by one the loved and 
cherished have yielded up their lives, feel that a grateful people 
have dealt well by 3'our dead. Citizens of Hanover, 3'ou will all 
bear to your homes the consciousness that 3'Ou have striven to 
show your estimation of those who have made you forevermore 
their debtors. The exercises of dedication were very solemn and 
impressive : and, if there are any here who have no interest in this 
occasion, the^' but dishonor themselves; for our dear fi'iends and 
comrades of the bivouac beyond are as little af!ected by such 
contempt as the starry heavens by the dust of the earth. Could 
tliey speak who have fled from us, who may be hovering invisible 
about us, watching with eager interest the services of this day, — 

"Could those clear friends of whom we are tliinkiug 
Be with us, and speak earth's language again, 
I think eacli would say, 'O my comrades, die fighting! 

Heaven's choicest blessings must be purchased with pain.'"' 

Quietly have these monumental stones risen, with no sound of 
the workman's hammer, with each stone fitted to its place, adding 
strength and beauty to the whole fabric. And, in the words of 
another, I would add, "Thus steadily and quietly let there grow 
up within us, in the hearts of our youth and in the minds of our 
strong men, those principles of loyalty and virtue which shall be 
the safeguard of the state, the glory of the people, while every man 
adorns himself for his opportunity, and takes his place and holds 
it to the end. Then shall we be strong, with a glorious ancesby, 
an honorable life, an illustrious hope ; and, possessing a wide and 
united land, we shall enjoy, and transmit down the course of cen- 
turies, ' one countiy, one constitution, one destiny.' " 

No grander proof can be offered to the elevating and enlighten- 
ing influences of freedom than the fact that no nation upon the 
face of the globe possesses a press which can compare with that of 
this country, whether we consider the number of newspapers, or 
their influence. 

In 1876 there were published in the United States 8,129 papers 
of various classes, of which 6,235 were weeklies, 747 monthly, and 
738 daily. Of the journals published in this country, New York 



The Exercises in the Tent. 47 

furnishes the largest number (1,818). At the present time there 
are more newspapers printed in the United States than in all the 
other nations of the combined world. Their growth has been 
rapid, even in proportion to the increase of population. There 
were thirty-seven newspapers published in the United States at the 
commencement of the Revolutionary war in 1775. Of these, seven 
were published in Massachusetts ; and all were weeklies, with one 
exception. With these began the independence of the nation. 
Now we have 8,129 papers, and 44,000,000 people, where, in 
1775, we had barel}' 3,000,000 people. These figures show, that, 
where 103 years ago we printed one paper for ever}' 30,000 souls, 
we now print one for every 500. In 1704 there was but one 
paper, and the number of copies issued annually was 16,000: 
now there are 8,129 papers, of which 1,250,024,590 copies are 
annually' issued. Why is America pre-eminently the country of 
newspapers? I answer, — First, the wide diffusion of education 
makes readers, and the number of readers fixes the number of 
newspapers; second, that the Americans were the first to grasp 
the true conception of the province of a newspaper. England and 
France were full of party organs. The American newspaper saw 
early and clearl}- that its readers wanted news in the papers : it re- 
solved to give it, cost what it might in time, in toil, in danger, 
or in money. A third cause of the excellence of the American 
newspapers may be found in the fact of superior genius and tact 
of their editors and managers. The editor is a creation of the 
present centurj'. Occasionally among his predecessors was seen 
a spark of the genuine editorial fire ; but the time had not 3'et come 
for the blazing forth of that galaxy of stars which now so brilliant- 
ly light up the journalistic firmament. The greatest virtue and 
the best talent in America have met in this high calling. On the 
roster of what profession will you find nobler names than those of 
Franklin, of Raymond, of Greeley, of Bowles, or of McGarrahan ? 
What a pang shot through our hearts the other da}' when we read 
that the beloved Bryant was gone, to return no more ! Great 
in song, great in scholarship, he was greatest in all, through " The 
New- York Evening Post," in lifting the people to nobler views of 
life and its duties, civil, social, and political. Gentlemen, as yow 
peruse your paper on the morrow, or have done so this morning, it 
is difficult for 3-ou to imagine the vast labor, physical and mental, 



48 Soldiers' and Sailors' MoHument. 

expended on a single edition of a great daily. All througti the 
weary watches of the night nwriads of bus}' hands have been toil- 
ing, that this messenger of the morning might greet you. From 
midda}' to midnight, and from midnight to midda}', the globe is 
ransaclied for incident and event to be blazoned upon its teeming 
pages. No cost of toil or gold dismays them. Their servants are 
ever3'where. Their pencils are busy, in the smoke of battle, in 
the midst of the mob, in the forest and on the desert, on the moun- 
tains and on the sea, watching the movements of nations and armies, 
kings and cabinets, watching their movements, keeping weary 
vigil with the astronomer, striding on with each advance of science, 
and bearing the products of all this labor and toil, morning after 
morning, to the homes of the nation. Poor, grand old Greeley's 
last words were, ''The Tribune's gone, the country's gone, and 
I am gone." In the first of these statements is locked up a start- 
ling fact. Several of the great American newspapers have skele- 
tons in their closets ; and we know why " The Tribune " was gone 
for Mr. Greeley. For forty 3'ears it had been an independent 
organ of freedom, of justice, of the rights of the wronged of every 
name and condition. Defeated for the Presidency, the old man 
put on the editorial armor, with the resolution to fight the battles 
of the plundered South. One morning he walked down to the 
office with such an article as only he could write. He handed it 
to the managing editor, who glanced at it, wrote on the back " de- 
clined," and sent it back to the author. The interview which 
followed was like that between Lear and Goneril in its character 
and in its results, with Mr. Greeley as Lear. Jay Gould and his 
ring owned " The Tribune." 

I thank you, Mr. President, for the honor conferred in permit- 
ting me to address such a distinguished audience upon such an 
occasion ; and, thanking you ladies and gentlemen for the very 
kind attention you have given my remarks, permit me to propose 
a sentiment, and close : — 

The American Press : The Press of America has always been 
free : the day it ceases to be independent, let it die. 

At this stage of the exercises the Chief Marshal and his aides 
ascended the platform, and escorted His Excellency the Governor, 
followed by the other guests intending to take the train for Boston, 



Tlie Exereines in the Tent. 49 

from the stand ; the entire audience standing, and the band playing 
" Hail to the Chief." 

The Tenth Sentiment. — " The Soldiers of the Revolution." 

The President of the Day. — As tlie glory of children are 
their fathers, there can be no want of appropriateness in this Re- 
sponse being made b\' one whose entrance on the duties of manhood 
has been in the near past. He will tell us, witli the definiteness 
and accurac}- required b}- his profession, — that of the law, — of 
the devoted and self-sacrificing patriotism of our sires in the strug- 
gle with our mother-country. 

It is with much pleasure that I now present to you Arthur Lord, 
Esq., of Pl^-mouth. 

RESPONSE OF ARTHUR LORD, ESQ. 

Mr. President, — The honorable part which the town of Han- 
over took in the Revolution liappily illustrated that love of liberty, 
fidelitj', earnestness in thought and action, and devotion to prin- 
ciple, which made the Revolution successful, and our New-England 
town governments the basis on which alone the Republic can endure, 
and universal suffrage be possible. 

It was here, sir, in our own count}', that the dream of independ- 
ence took definite shape, and cr^'stallized into an open expression 
of an intelligent conviction. 

Here, sir, before a separation from the mother-country had been 
suggested, save in the secret councils of a few of the early patriots, 
two years before Sam Adams had breathed it openly, the neighbor- 
ing town of Pembroke had declared, that, unless Great Britain 
" found" a better course of conduct, the union between England 
and America would have to cease." The famous Committee of 
Correspondence and Safet}', which was organized before Lexington 
and Concord had made war inevitable, had many a stout-hearted 
correspondent in the towns of this count}'. 

Its foremost duty was to prepare men's minds to receive the idea 
of a possible separation, if England still refused to preserve in- 
violate to the colonies those rights which their ancient charters 
guaranteed. 

We were as little prepared for war in 1775 as in 1861. A few 
companies of illy-trained militia, commanded b}' inexperienced 



50 /Soldiers^ and Sailors'' Monument. 

officers, were the onl^' military forces to meet tlie trained regulars 
of England. The people of our county- towns were farmers, not 
soldiers. Peace, and not war, had been the fortune of the men of 
that generation. 

There were a few, indeed, from this county, still living, who had 
followed Winslow in his mournful expedition to Acadia ; a few, 
perhaps, who had seen the smoke of an enem3-'s guns rising above 
the Heights of Abraham (where the heroic Wolfe fell in the moment 
of victory) , or had learnt at Louisburg or Crown Point the horrors 
of war. 

But the Indian forray for 3'ears had not startled the peaceful 
settlers : the old flintlock hung unused over the fireplace, the 
stout sword rusted in its scabbard. 

The men from Hanover, who were soon to follow the flag to the 
battle-fields of the Revolution, for the most part knew nothing of 
arms, save what they learnt in hunting the red deer through the 
quiet woods, or shooting the wild-fowl peacefully feeding in the 
beautiful ponds of our county. There is no graver historical error 
than the belief, too prevalent, that it was to secure new privileges, 
or gain unaccustomed rights, that the soldiers of the Revolution 
fought. 

There was no great uprising of a people to break old bonds, or 
throw off allegiance to a long line of tyrannical oppressors. 

The limits of English interference were well defined, and the 
weight of English rule was but slightly felt. 

Our fathers were free men, free born, with that intelligent inter- 
est in, and thorough understanding of, tlieir rights and their duties, 
which 3'ears of self-government had given them. 

They had their own town governments, elected their own repre- 
sentatives, and discharged all the legislative, judicial, and minis- 
terial functions. 

It is a mistake to call those men, in the earlier stages of the 
struggle, revolutionists. 

The change in their condition came from King and Parliament, 
and was recognized on both sides of the Atlantic as a subversion 
of their ancient liberties. 

They were prepared to resist any encroachments on those rights 
of self-government, to which they had acquired at least a prescrip- 
tive title by what Burke calls the " wise neglect" of England. 



The Exercises in the Tent. 51 

You remember the stoiy of Lexington and Concord, and how 
on the village green, in the earl}- light of that April morning, tlie 
little band of farmers stood, silent, patient, motionless, waiting 
to receive the enemy's (ire, — an act not of timidity nor wealiness, 
but of intelligent martyrdom, which will win the admiration of the 
student of history in all coming time. 

There seemed to be in men's minds a well-defined conviction 
that the attitud3 of the colonies to the mother-countr}' must be 
only that of defence. 

Our part in the conflict was resistance, not attack. Our duty 
\2ij in making the whole people see that England was clearly in 
the wrong. 

And the crowning proof of her error the}' drew from the fact 
that her soldiers fired the first volley at Lexington. 

Providence laid on the farmers of Middlesex, and not Pl3-mouth, 
the grave responsibilitj', and gave them the great opportunity for 
that heroic act of self-sacrifice of standing unresisting to receive 
the English bullets. 

The king's troops at Lexington and Concord brought the war on 
the colonies, and the line of his duty was clear to every patriot. 
The echoes which the guns of Lexington had wakened had scarcely 
died awaj' when swift messengers brought the tidings to the towns 
of this count}-. The minute-men were at once organized ; the 
crews of the fishing fleet at Plvmouth abandoned their vessels 
in the harbor ; the farmers of Hanover left their ploughs in 
the furrows, and hastened to attack the "Queen's Guards," 
under Balfour, at Marshfield. Had not Col. Cotton restrained the 
enthusiasm of his soldiers, the whole company of British regulars 
would have been captured, and the men of this county would have 
won the honor of taking the first prisoners in the war of the Revo- 
lution. 

The British troops fled to Boston ; and since the last file of Bal- 
four's soldiers, in their retreat, crossed the county line, no hostile 
army has encamped within the limits of our county. 

To each call for troops for three months, six months, nine 
months, three j-ears, and at last for the war, hy authority of the 
Acts of the General Assembly', your town contributed its share. 

I have had the opportunity recently to examine the original rolls 
of the mustering-officer for this county, giving the quotas of the 



52 jSoldters' and iSailors' Monument. 

several towns, the number of enlistments, the names, residence, 
term of service, age, height, complexion, of each soldier ; and in 
that faded manuscript I find that Hanover sent seventy-one men to 
the ivar. 

The manuscript record of the census of the towns of Plymouth 
County, for the 3X'ar 1790, shows the entire population of Hanover, 
men, women, and children, tree born and slaves, to have been only 
one thousand and eighty-three ; and the number of males above 
the age of sixteen, only one hundred and ninety-eight. 

According to those figures, after making due allowance for those 
enfeebled by disease or the infirmities of age, nearly one-half of the 
entire able-bodied men of Hanover, capable of bearing arms, served 
as si)ldiers in the Revolution. 

What better evidence of the patriotism of those men? what 
stronger testimony to the suffering which the war occasioned than 
those simple details? 

The annalist of the Revolution, Dr. Thacher, the Plymouth 
surgeon, records this story as illustrating the depreciation of 
values, and the " hardness of the times," that the farmer of a 
neighboring town, who sold his cow in the spring for forty dollars, 
was obliged to expend the whole sum in the fall in the purchase of 
a goose for his Thanksgiving-dinner ! 

But the courage of the people did not falter in the darkest days 
of the struggle. In that roll of the soldiers to which I just al- 
luded, in the handwriting of Gen. Goodwin, is found the inter- 
esting memorandum that substitutes could be hired for fortj- to 
forty-two dollars apiece. 

The supply of soldiers kept nearly abreast of the demand ; for 
the hearts of the people were in the struggle. 

The price of the Thanksgiving-dinner was the price of the 
enlistment. 

But I must not detain 3'ou longer with the stor}- of the Revolu- 
tion. 

The liberty and union which those i)atriots won, the citizen- 
soldiers, whose heroic deaths you commemorate to-daj-, have pre- 
served. 

The simple Monument on yonder green is the mute but eloquent 
witness, that, in the hour of their country's peril, the sons of the 
soldiers of the Revolution lacked not the fidelity, the courage, the 



The Exercisf'S in the Tent. 53 

fortitude, and the intelligent devotion to the great cause of civil 
and religious liberty' and equal rights, which characterized their 
fathers. In hands lil^e theirs, the destiny of the nation is indeed 
safe. The dai-k days of the Republic will be but the forerunners 
of happj' and more prosperous times. 

And 3-our hearts respond to the pra^-er of the poet : — 

"Oh ! make Thou us, through centuries long, 
In peace secure, in justice strong; 
Around our gift of Freedom draw 
The safeguards of Thy righteous law; 
And, cast in some diviner mould, 
Let the new cycle shame the old." 

The Eleventh Sentiment. — " The Hanover Ride Companv." 
Music. — " The "Last Rose of Summer." 

The President of the Day. — It was hoped that the health of 
Capt. Nathan Dwelle}', the Ensign in 1820, and who is believed to 
be the survivor of this once flourishing organization, would permit 
him to be present, and to respond to this Sentiment ; but, to our 
great regret, we are disappointed of our hope. 

The Hanover Rifle Company was formed about 1816. It was 
annexed to the Second Regiment of the First Brigade of the Fifth 
Division of the Massachusetts Militia. The members were from 
Hanover, Scituate, Marshfield, Pembroke, and Hanson. The 
band consisted of two fifers, two tenor-drummers, one bass-drum- 
mer, and sometimes performers on the clarinet and bugle. 

Mr. Dwelley was chosen Ensign in 1820. In that year the com- 
pany met for review near St. Andrew's Church. On that occasion 
a standard was presented, and an address delivered by one of the 
young ladies of the town, Miss Eliza Stetson, afterwards the wife of 
Mr. Sumner Stetson. The clergy of the neighborhood were pres- 
ent, and an assemblage of from two to three hundred spectators, 
among whom were ladies dressed in white, each with a green rib- 
bon ; the uniform of the company being green coat and pants, with 
a long green plume in a felt cap. 

Miss Eliza Stetson, who delivered the address, was accompanied 
by Miss Huldah Bass Eells (afterwards the wife of Mr. Dwelley, 
the Ensign at that time) and Miss Ruth Stockbridge (afterwards 
Mrs. James Turner). 



54 Soldiers' and Sailors'' Monument. 

The standard having been presented and waved, and the music 
cheered, the company', with their guests, maiched to the hall, and 
opened right and left, the ladies entering first. Afterwards refresh- 
ments were served. 

The address delivered by Miss Stetson on that occasion was 
as follows : — 

" Sir, — The Ladies of Hanover and its vicinity, impressed with 
a high sense of the merits of the Rifle Company, in their behalf I 
present you this standard, in full confidence that you will not suf- 
fer it to be wrested from you, nor its reputation sullied. 

" To be a lover of peace while piepared for war is a character- 
istic of the American soldier ; but, though peace is our anxious 
wish, we would not have it purchased or preserved by the surrender 
of any of those rights and privileges procured and transmitted to 
us by our fathers. 

" Should any insolent foe attempt to deprive us of these dear- 
bought and invaluable blessings, then, sir, think of this banner ! 
think of our ancestors ! and 3'ou must be brave. 

" Remember your friends, and you will conquer." 

It is greatly regretted that no copy of the address delivered by 
Mr. Dwelley in accepting the standard can be found. 

The standard is of green silk, and bears on its front Ihe arms 
of the State of Massachusetts, — on the right, a rifleman shooting 
at a target on the left ; on the left, an Indian with bow and arrows ; 
at the top, roses, with a blue scroll, on which, in yellow letters, 
are the words, 

"From the Fair to the Brave;" 

at the bottom, a pink sci'oll, on which, in blue letters, are the 
words, 

" Hanover Rifle Company." 

On the obverse are the arms of the United States, with the 
same inscriptions and designs as on the front. 

It is now the property of the Hon. Thomas B. Waterman of 
South Scituate. 

The Twelfth Sentiment. — " The Soldiers of 1812 and the Hano- 
ver Artillery Company." 



The Exercises in the Tent. 55 

The Hon. Perez Simmons, to whom had been assigned the 
Response to this Sentiment, was prevented by professional duties 
from being present. The following letter was read : — 

West Scituate, July 16, 1878. 
The Rev. William H. Brooks. 

Dear Sir, — M^^ father desires me to sa}' tlia t he regrets that 

important professional engagements render it impossible for him 

to accept your polite invitation to be present to-morrow at the 

dedication of the Soldiers' Monument. 

I have the honor to subscribe mj-self 3'our obedient servant, 

John F. Simmons. 

A copy of the expected Response was requested for publication 
in this Record ; but none was received. 

The Thirteenth Sentiment. — "The Grand Army of the Re- 
public." 

It was expected that the Response to this Sentiment would have 
been made by the Hon. Henr^' B. Peirce, the Secretary of the 
Commonwealth, always glad to spend and be spent in his country's 
service ; but, as he felt obliged to leave in comi^any with the guests 
from Boston, the audience were deprived of what would have givtm 
them sincere pleasure, — the warm and s^'mpathetic utterances of 
a man happy to help with a liberal hand the needy soldier deserv- 
ing of aid. 

The following letter from him has been received : — 

Commonwealth of INIassachusetts, 
Secretary's Department, Boston, Sept. 13, 1878. 

My dear Sir, — You are very kind in your letter of the 11th ; 
but I had prepared no address for the occasion referred to, — not 
that I was unmindful of its importance, but because it is not in 
my line. I was to speak for the " Grand Army," and was depend- 
ing upon the exercises preceding for inspiration. No response was 
necessar}" ; for the Post of the Grand Army had ali'eady spoken : 
and the silent Shaft dedicated upon that da}' commemorates the 
dead, while it tells of the esteem in which the living ave held by 
the good people of Hanover, — the living of those who served our 
country in her hour of need, and, having aided in conquering an 
honorable peace, have returned to good citizenship. 



56 Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument. 

The Grand- Array organization does not exist for itself alone, 
but for the widows and orphans of the faHen ; and, while it is doing 
its fnll share of good to others, its members are being made better 
citizens through tlieir connection with the order. The exercises 
of the day had been so full of interest, that I doubt not, had an 
opportunity otfered, I might have given utterance to a few thoughts 
which would have been deemed appropriate to the occasion and to 
the sentiment. I thank you, in common with all, for the perfect 
management, and especialh' for courtesies which were purely 
personal. 

Ver3- truly yours, 

Henry B. Peirce. 
The Rev. William Henry Brooks, D.D., Hanover, Mass. 

The following letters were read : — 

LETTER FROM BRIGADIER-GEN. HORACE BINNEY SARGENT. 

30 Court Street, Boston, July 10, 1878. 
The Rev. William Henry Brooks, D.D., Hanover, Mass. 

My dear Dr. Brooks, — I thank you and your committee most 
cordially for ^our great kindness, but find that I have engagements 
here that will require my attention. 

I congratulate you on the prospect of a grand celebration, and 
wish you every success. 

Most trul}" and respectfully yours, 

HoR. BiNNEY Sargent. 

LETTER OF ASSISTANT ADJUTANT-GEN. JAMES F. MEECH. 

Boston, July 15, 1878. 

Dear Sir, — I have to acknowledge the receipt of your Aery kind 
invitation of the 8th instant, asking me to be present at the dedi- 
cation of your Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument on the 17th 
instant. 

I have delayed answering the invitation, trusting that I should 
be able to attend. I find, at the last moment, that it will be impos- 
sible for me to be present, on account of an accumulation of busi- 
ness at these headquarters, which will preclude my being absent 
any day until after the 20th instant. 



The Exercises in the Tent. 57 



Thanking you and the committee fov j'our kindness in extending 
an invitation to me, I have the honor to remain, 
Very respectfully yours, 

James F. Meech, 
Asst. Adjt.-Gen. Dept. of Mass. G.A.R. 
The Rev. William Hekry Bkooks, D.D., President of the Day. 

The President of the Day. — AVe are highly honored by the 
presence of a veteran officer in the army of the Union, -nho 
"bears in his body the marks " of faithful and fearless service. 

Now that his country, " seeing no war, nor hearing the sound of 
the trumpet," has no need of his hands in battling for the right, 
he has been asked to render to her " true and laudable service" 
with his lips by the utterance of loyal and patriotic sentiments. 
I feel honored in having the opportunity to introduce to you our 
neighbor in Scituate Centre, Henry W. Brown, formerly Colonel 
of the Third New-Jersey Regiment. 

addkess of col. henry w. brown. 

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, — I made the remark 
in Scituate, that I had, during the war, a few times commenced an 
address to a regiment or a brigade ; but I did not mention, that as 
soon as I uttered the first word, "Forward!" the boys would 
leave, and I was obliged to follow, or remain without an audience. 
I have heard Massachusetts soldiers say, — mentioning a certain 
State, — " Those men fought well ; " which is strong evidence that 
some of the boys from this section were there. 

If called upon again, I know the returned volunteers of Mas- 
sachusetts, New Jersey, and all members of the Grand Army of 
the Republic, will fall in at the first tap of the drum, and show 
recruits in what direction to step out, if the command should be 
given, " Charge bayonet — forward — guide centre — double quick 
— march ! " 

The Fourteenth Sentiment. — " Our Invited Guests." 
It was much regretted that the Rev. Jacob Baker of South 
Weymouth, who had kindly consented to respond to this pleasant 
Sentiment, felt constrained to leave in the train with the Boston 
guests. 



58 Soldiers' and Sailors' 31onument. 

In answer to a request that he should furnish a copy of his 
intended Response for publication in this Record, he sent the 
following note : — 

SoiTTH Weymouth, Oct. 4, 1878. 

Reverend and dear Sir, — I have been from home, and, finding 
3'our letter, was about to answer it, when I received 30ur last, 3'es- 
terda}'. 

I am going away again next week, to be gone a few weeks, and 
cannot now possibly arrange my notes for publication. 

As I did not speak, it may be as well that they do not appear in 
the pamphlet. 

The occasion of the Dedication of the Monument was one of 
deep feeling and interest to all that were present, and especially 
so to those of Hanover. 

The Granite will mark for ages the patriotism of your people. 

I felt a thrill of patriotism, as seldom before, on that occasion ; 
and to have spoken then and thei'e would have been to have spoken 
under inspiring impulses. 

A blessing on you and your town's people ! 

Yours for humanity, 

J. Baker. 
The Rev. William Henry Brooks, D.D. 

The following letter from Gen. Corse ^ of Chicago, 111., was 
received : — 

New York, July 18, 1878. 
The Rev. Wm. Henry Brooks, D.D., Hanover, Mass. 

Dear Sir, — Your invitation to attend the Hanover Dedication 
of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument has just reached me ; and 

' Gen. Corse is the illustrious soldier who seized and successfully held the AUatoona 
Pass, about half way between Marietta and Kingston. He had but about thirteen hundred 
men to garrison this position, the possession of which was indispensable to the existence of 
the Union army at Atlanta. 

The number of the army attjicking him was nearly thirty thousand. 

When the surrender of the pass was demanded by Gen. French, who commanded the 
advance of Gen. Hood's army, he coolly remarked, as if speaking to himself, " Gen. French 
is either a fool, or thinks some one else one." 

In the tierce fight, Oct. 5, 1864, Gen. Corse was wounded in the cheek. As he fell, faint- 
ing from loss of blood, he cried out, "Hold Allatoona! " Gen. Sherman signalled from 
the top of Kenesaw Mountain, nearly fifteen miles distant, " Hold on to Allatoona to the 
last. I will help you." 

Gen. Corse, though suffering intense pain from his wound, soon resumed command, and 
successfully held the pass. 



The Exercises in the Tent. 69 



I write to express my thanks for your kindness, and my regrets at 
my misfortune in not being able to avail myself of your invitation. 
My absence in New York has been protracted longer than I antici- 
pated when I left Plymouth, or I should most assuredly have par- 
ticipated with you on so praiseworthy an occasion. 
With regard, I am truly yours, 

John M. Couse. 

At this stage of the exercises it was found to be expedient that 
changes should be made in the order for the reading of Sentiments 
and the hearing of Responses. 

It is, however, deemed best that in this Record the original order 
should be followed. 

The Fifteenth Sentiment. — " Hanover's Naval Worthies." 

The President of the Day. — We are very glad to have with 
us to-day one in whom we feel a commendable pride, — a native 
of the town, an alumnus of our Academy, a brave defender of his 
country in the late war for the Union. It is now my very agree- 
able duty to announce the name of the next speaker, — Mr. William 
Carver Bates of Newton. 

RESPONSE OF MR. WILLIAM CARVER BATES. 

Mr. President and Fellow-Citizens, — On the base of this 
Shaft which we have to-day dedicated with simple yet impressive 
ceremonies to the memory of our fellow-citizens who gave them- 
selves for their country there are recorded twenty-three names of 
those whose immortality of gratitude was secured by the circum- 
stances of their death while the fate of the Republic was still un- 
decided. It is fitting that their service should be thus recalled by 
the enduring granite until the stone crumbles, and the memory of 
man fadeth away ; but it is well we should remember at a time 
like this that there are others less fortunate perhaps in the hour of 
their departure, but who none the less deserve our poor gratitude 
for the lesson of their lives of patriotic service, and who have 
still their share in the memories which this graceful column 
recalls. 

The Sentiment which the courtesy of your committee intrusts 
to my brief consideration at this time reminds us that of these 



60 Soldiers' and Sailors' 31onnme)it. 

names none have been specially connected with the Navy of the 
United States ; but among tlia unnamed whom this Monument com- 
memorates will be found some whose lives were spent in the 
Naval Service of our country', and who are worthy of our honor 
and affectionate veneration. 

Hanover, though an inland town, has throughout her histor}' con- 
tributed to the naval strength of the country. As early as 1660, 
the Barstows were engaged in ship-building ; and it is only in 
recent years that this industry has ceased in our vicinity. It is 
the merchant marine that precedes and recruits the Nav}'. 

Our connection with the Nav}^ has always been somewhat inti- 
mate : our mechanics have contributed their skill to its service. 

The anchors of the "Constitution" were forged in Hanover. 
But, after all, the contributions of a State tJiat tell are men. 

"What constitutes a State? 
Not high-raised battlements or laboi-ed mound, 

Thick waU or moated gate; 
Not cities proud with spires, and turret-crowned ; 

Not bays and broad-armed ports, 
Where, laughing at the storms, rich navies ride; 

Not starred and spangled courts 
Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. 

No: men, bigh-minded men, 



Men who their duties know." 

And in this respect Hanover has not been found wanting. Before 
the Navy of the United States had an existence, a man-child 
was born within her borders who was destined to give threescore 
3^ears of his life to the Naval Service of his country. 

Joseph Smith was born in Hanover in 1790, and at the age of 
nineteen, in the first flush of youth, joined the United-States Navy ; 
and he left the service in 1869, having passed through all the 
grades of the service, from midshipman to rear-admiral. Time 
would fail me to recall the interesting details of these sixty years of 
patriotism. In the naval engagements in the last war with Great 
Britain he received his baptism of fire as a 3'onng man ; in com- 
mand of the Mediterranean squadron in mature manhood : his 
declining j-ears were spent in official duties at Washington, as 
Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks. It has been well said 
that Peace hath her victories, no less than War. 



Tlit- Uxercises in the Tent. 61 

His Excellency the Governor, whose services on the Naval Com- 
mittee of Congress are not forgotten b}' a grateful Commonwealth, 
has borne testiraon^y to the character and service of Admiral Smith 
in words which would dim any eulogy of mine ; but I cannot 
refrain from adding m}' testimoii}' to Hanover's appreciation of 
this old-fashioned public servant. In the midst of corruption he 
was pure ; among the faithless he was faithful found. 

It is common to bewail the lack of integrity of the public ser- 
vice ; but, without entering into the consideration of the soundness 
of this course, Hanover can recall with pleasure the career of this 
grand old admiral, who was born here, and who returned here 
from time to time for that rest and inspiration which seem to 
come best from associating with the scenes and friends of our 
youth. 

If it be said that this Monument specially commemorates the 
sacrifices of our civil war of the Rebellion, the Navy has still its 
share in the votive stone ; for on board of '•' The Brooklyn " with 
Farragut, at Mobile, was a Hanover boy whose life was given to 
the Nav}- of the country. 

Haviland Barstow, born in Hanover in 1839, entered the Navy 
in 1859. In the exercise of his chosen profession of engineer, he 
doubtless anticipated long years of usefulness to his country. He 
lost no opportunity of improvement, and spared no pains in per- 
fecting himself in the intricate details of his arduous work : as a 
consequence, he became a proficient in his profession, with abilit}' 
which was recognized by speedy promotion. 

As I have said, his service was varied in almost as many waters 
as have known the stars and stripes. Finally, after a nearly three- 
years' cruise, the United-States steamship '' Oneida " left the port 
of Yokohama for home. What visions of home those officers and 
men must have had, now that they were homeward bound ! Their 
wanderings from strange port to port were over: for them would 
soon be " the welcoming arms, the open door." But in a few 
short hours " The Oneida " was a helpless wreck, sinking with one 
hundred and thirteen men brave and true : among them was our 
Hanover boy, whom many of you knew, now in the prime of early 
manhood ; and henceforth he became a name, a memory only. 
Such are the dangers that environ our defenders by land and sea. 

Could you have done less than to send their example down to 
future generations by the mute eloquence of this speaking granite? 



62 Soldiers' and SaUoni Monument. 

Should we not have failed in our dut}' to-day had we not empha- 
sized the fact that Hanover has Naval heroes worthy of her honor, 
and whose memory she cherishes as a sacred legacy of patriotic 
inspiration ? 

It is in this belief that I have ventured to claim as among the 
unnamed dead, commemorated b}' this IMonuuient, the names of 
Rkar-Admiral Joseph Smith, and Fiusr Assistant Engineer 
Haviland Barstow. 

The Sixteenth Sentiment. — "The Joseph E. Wilder Post, Han- 
over. ' ' 

Woodbridge R. Howes, M.D., who had been invited to respond 
to this Sentiment in behalf of the local Post, was absent from 
Hanover at the time of the Dedication of the Monument. His 
absence, and the consequent omission of his Response, were deeply 
regretted. 

In compliance with a request made to him, he has furnished a 
cop3' of the expected Response. 

RESPONSE OF W. R. HOWES, M.D, 

Mr. President and Fellow-Citizens. — It gives me pleasure 
to respond to this Sentiment, and, as well as I am able, to speak 
for Joseph E. Wilder Post of the Grand Arm}-. Our Post has 
chosen this name as an exponent of the exalted virtues which we 
admire, and endeavor to cherish and perpetuate, — a name which 
represents an admirable example of the patriotic volunteer soldier ; 
a student, who, at his country's call, renounced his aspirations 
after literary fame and distinction ; a son and brother, who relin- 
quished the sacred ties of a happy home, and went forth cheer- 
fully to endure the unfamiliar hardships of the camp, to brave the 
perils of an insalubrious climate, and to encounter death amid the 
dread surroundings of relentless warfare. The memory of such 
devoted patriotism we would jealously guard ; and it is with senti- 
ments of peculiar satisfaction that we welcome the achievement of 
a noble object, which this day receives its consummation in the 
gracefully-performed ceremony of unveiling to our view this beau- 
tiful Monument, consecrated to the memory of our comrades who 
have marched on with the advance. While we enjoy participation 
in the fitting services of this occasion, there are manv circum- 



The Exercues in the Tent. 63 

stances which cause our minds to revert to various scenes of the 
past. 

Our comrades in military arraj', and moving through familiar 
evokitions to the inspiring measure of martial music, remind us of 
the "pomp and circumstance of war." The weary march, the 
tiresome drill, and the fastidious exactness of the showy parade, 
are reproduced with vivid freshness. Tiien the near view of this 
sacred spot, where many of our comrades are peacefully sleeping, 
recalls sadder memories ; and we see again, in some shad}', retired 
spot, the thickly-rising mounds where lie a numerous company of 
our late companions in a rest which can nevermore be disturbed 
by the din of war. Again we hear the wailing of the shrill fife, 
and the mournful roll of the muffled drum, which betoken a com- 
rade's obsequies; and perchance we recall long da3's and nights 
of suffering as a prelude to that comrade's death. But these sad 
scenes bring with them a sweet consolation in the recollection of 
the gentle hands and kind hearts which were found ever ready to 
administer to the distressed. We recall with supreme satisfaction 
the subdued demeanor and tender solicitude with which those hardy, 
self-denying men waited upon their suffering comrades, and the 
grateful, resigned expression of the sufferers, giving the assurance, 
that though deprived of the tender nursing of the dear friends of 
home, yet in the gentle touch, and kind, sympathizing tones, of 
those rough-nurtured men, there was a ministration almost angelic. 

Now, a very prominent object of our Association is to cherish 
this kind sympathy, to foster and strengthen this brotherly affilia- 
tion among our surviving comrades. 

Believing that reverent care for the memory of our dead, and 
necessary aid for the living who may require it, can come from no 
source more gracefully and acceptably than from our own commu- 
nity, we claim the privilege of strewing flowers upon our com- 
rades' graves ; and we insist, that, in every town of our State, 
tributes of regard should be erected to their memory. 

And, while exercising watchful care that proper respect shall be 
observed for those who sacrificed their lives for the cause, we can- 
not be unmindful that there is always with us a multitude whose 
sacrifices are scarcely deserving of less consideration, inasmuch as, 
by decayed health and disabling wounds, they are unfitted for the 
business of life, and in many cases are condemned to continual 
suffering. 



64 Soldiers' and Sailors'' Monument. 

To the necessities of such unfortunate coravades we contribute 
as our means permit, and in their behalf we solicit funds to provide 
a place of refuge which shall be an honor to our Commonwealth. 

We look to the influences of our Association for moral strength 
and courage to aid us in the duties and trials of life. We remem- 
ber with satisfaction the kind companionship of the camp, and the 
encouragement and confidence derived bj^ standing shoulder to 
shoulder while facing the hardships and perils of war ; and 
though our imitation of such intimate relations must necessarily 
be imperfect in our present dispersed condition, vet, by harmo- 
nious action and frequent interchange of fraternal sentiments, we 
hope to find energy and encouragement to nerve us for the battle 
of life, in some degree, as the union of strong hands and brave 
hearts, with the magnetic toucli of the elbow, nerved us in the da}' 
of deadl}' peril to breast undauntedly the leaden storm of war. 

Ours is not a political organization. Tiie rules of our order do 
not allow its power to be wielded for partisan effect, or its influ- 
ence to be used for personal advancement. But, by combined and 
well-directed effort, we hope to promote and sustain such a noble 
and exalted patriotism, such a disinterested spirit of loyalty, so 
pure and devoted a lo\'e of country, that, whatever exigency may 
arise, the tried and faithful champions of our Nation's liberty and 
honor ma^' always be found in the ranks of The Gkand Army of 
THE Republic. 

A St. Andrew's Cross, the arms of which were about twenty- 
seven inches in length, made of deliciously fj-agrant white lilies, 
interwoven with smilax, in memoiy of Joseph PL Wilder, after 
whom the local Grand Army Post was named, — the beautiful and 
thoughtful gift of Mr, A, W, Kingman of Paris, France, — bearing 
a card with the inscription, — 



IN MEMORY OF 


JOSEPH 


E. 


WILDER. 


FROM A. 


w. 


KINGMAN, 


Par 


•s, France. ■ 1 



— was placed on the platform in front of the President's table, 
and was lifted up and displayed by a detail from the local Army 



The Exercises in the Tent. 65 

Post — R. M. Stuvtevant and J. C. Bates — to the deeply-inter- 
ested audience. 

The Seventeenth Sentiment. — " Tlie Town of Hanover." 
Music. — " Home, Sweet Home." 

The President of the Day. — From liis long connection witli 
town-affairs, so well known to all of 3-011 is the gentleman who is 
to respond to the Sentiment in which we feel an especial interest, 
that nothing but the usage on an occasion like this requires the 
announcement of his name. I now present to 3'ou the Hon. 
Jedediah Dwelle^^ the Chairman of the Honorable Board of 
Selectmen of the Town. 

RESPONSE OF THE HON. J. DWELLEY. 

Mr. President, — In an attempt to speak for "The Town of 
Hanover," we are met at the outset b}' Barry's History (our 
Bible) , a work invaluable for its research and candor ; and by m}' 
friend Bates's able Address of last year, interesting for its land- 
marks of her earl3' and later history. 

The ground has been well covered ; j'et I am sure much grain 
will repay the careful gleaner, left pm-posely, doubtless, b}* the 
reapers, as in the da3's of Ruth. A century and a half crowns 
her with honor, and ever}' year has been fruitful of events of 
interest " to those who love a nation's legends." 

I should like to speak to 3'OU of her industries; of her agricul- 
ture, almost the sole occupation of her earl}' residents ; and show 
yon the painful yet steady progress of her people, comparing the 
tools of to-da}^ and those in use at the date of her incorporation, 
when cast steel was nnknown ; showing the use made of fertilizers 
now, and the waste then ; the care with which cattle are treated 
now, and the necessity that required a ruder treatment then ; to 
dwell on the industry and econom}' of the fathers, — virtues we are 
too apt to despise ; on the evidences of the skill of men like Rev. 
Mr. Baldwin and Capt. Albert Smith in reclaiming and improv- 
ing waste lands, and on the evidences of the skill of her sons of 
to-day, as shown b}' the fact, that, while fourteen towns in the 
county exceed her in acres of cultivated land, but four exceed 
her in the value of agricultural products. 



66 /Soldiers^ and Sailors^ Monumemt. 

I should like to speak of hev sliip-buikling, — an industiy that 
demanded skill and sagacity, and gave competence and dignit}- to 
so many of her early residents, and made the Four Corners in the 
early part of the present centurj- one of the most noted places in 
the count}- ; of her manufactures ; of the historic spot where Gov. 
Winthrop forded the stream on Iiis journe}' to Plymouth, and 
where anchors for the Government were made (but where now, 
alas ! old rubber shoes are ground) ; of the Drinkwater Iron 
Works, where cannon were cast in the War of the Revolution; 
of the genius and enterprise displayed in the tack business, of its 
steady growth, and of its influence on the prosperit}' of the town ; 
of the surprising growth of her shoe-manufactures during the last 
quarter of a ceiitur}- ; and of lier other and varied industries. It 
would be a pleasure to speak of her professional men, whose lives 
have honored her ; of her women, so man}' of whom have been 
distinguished for their intelligence, character, and accomplish- 
ments, and of that great number, " their country's pride," whose 
labors have wrought her prosperity ; of her schools ; of her kind- 
ness to the poor, and of the order that reigns within her borders ; 
of her beautiful river, and of her charming scenery ; of her 
history during the War of the Revolution, when more than one- 
half of her sons enrolled themselves in defence of the new-born 
Republic ; of her services in the AVar of 1812, when so many 
marched out to defend the borders of the Commonwealth ; and of 
her later sacrifices, and the spirit in which they were borne. 

But to-day I shall speak briefly in memor}- of six of her sons, 
whose names appear on our Monument, and whose faces many of 
us remember ; of men whose chief ambition in life was to do their 
duty by their families, their neighbors, and their countiy. And, if I 
say to you that these men were fair representatives of the town of 
Hanover, I shall have given her due praise. 

As time forbids an allusion to all whose names appear, I shall 
speak only of those who were killed in battle ; omitting those 
whose virtues and suffbrings were as great, but who died of 
wounds and disease in hospitals and prison-pens. 

Levi C. Brooks was born in Hanover, and always resided here. 
He was an industrious, frugal mechanic, about thirty-five years old, 
and a man whom all loved and respected. A peacemaker from 
principle, and a lover of home by nature, he felt that the justice 



The Exercises in the Tent. 67 



auci necessity of the cause required of him a sacrifice ; and he 
was ready to make it. He enlisted in 1862, after careful delibera- 
tion, and with a full knowledge of the probabilities. A single 
remark of his, in reply to a question as to what regiment he 
desired to join, will show his character better than many words of 
mine : '■'I desire to go where I can do the most good." 

He served faithfully for two years in the Department of the 
Gulf, until the bullet of the enemy pierced his vitals at the battle 
of Cain River. 

" The voice at midnight came : 
He started up to hear. 
A mortal arrow pierced his frame: 
He fell, but felt no fear." 

Benjamin Curtis was an industrious mechanic, just twenty-one 
years old when he enlisted. He was a grandson of Mr. John Cur- 
tis, whose labors in the cause of freedom so endeared him to Mr. 
Garrison, that the epitaph on his gravestone, in the cemetery near 
by, was composed by him. To those who remember him, I need not 
picture a fair, slight, and thoughtful 3'oung man, independent, im- 
pulsive, and honest, a good scholar, and a true friend. 

He enlisted, in August, 1862, as a recruit in the Twelfth Regi- 
ment, which he at once joined, bore the hardships of the forced 
march without a murmur, fought bravely, and fell at Antietam in 
one month after his enlistment. His body rests in the cemetery 
yonder by the side of his father and mother, who survived him. 

Pardon a personal allusion. I knew his character well, and 
always prophesied for him an honorable career ; and, as I bade him 
good-bj^, I said to him, ''You will surely win promotion ; " and his 
reply, so like him, was, " I will deserve it." 

" The fame is quenched that I foresaw; 
The head hath missed an earthly wreath : 
But, somewhere out of human view, 
Whate'er thy hands are set to do 
Is wrought with tumult of acclaim." 

Marcus 'M. Leavitt was born in South Scituate, but liA'ed in 
Hanover for some time previous to his enlistment. He was one of 
the first volunteers, enlisted without bount}', served faithfully two 
years, and was killed at the battle of Vicksburg. 



68 Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument. 

Mr. Leavitt was recommended by his officers as a good soldier. 
He left a wife and one child. 

John W. Nelson was of foreign birth, but lived, previous to his 
enlistment, in Hanover. His life while with us was one of hard- 
ship. Much sickness, a large family, and small wages, kept him 
poor ; but no murmur escaped him in any of his conversations re- 
garding his condition. 

Mr. Nelson also enlisted in 1861, served for three years, came 
home at the expiration of his term, spoke freelj', but without com- 
plaint, of the hardships of a soldier's life, re-enlisted, and was 
killed in the second day's battle of the Wilderness. A comrade 
saw him fall, and reported him " dead on the field of battle." 

1 know not his resting-place, nor whether his bod}' was buried, 
or left to the vigils of the stars ; l)ut I feel sure that he heard the 
welcome, "Well done, good and faithful servant! " 

John B. Wilder was a laborer, with a wife and several children. 
He enlisted in January, 1864 ; and was killed in the following De- 
cember, while returning from picket-duty. 

To those who knew him here, it was no surpi'ise that he enjo3'ed 
the confidence of his officers, and that he met the great enemy fear- 
lessly while in the discharge of his duty. 

Joseph E. Wilder, after whom our Post was named, was born 
in Hanover, and, at the time of his enlistment, was a student at 
Amherst College. 

He was a man of quiet energy, with an intelligent face, which 
the photograph in the Hall faithfuU}- represents, and with a record 
which promised the most successful results : and he made the 
greatest sacrifice that an ambitious scholar, sxich as he was, could 
make ; though to him it is doubtful if there was any sacrifice in 
duty. 

He enlisted in 1861, served three years, re-enlisted, and was 
killed at the battle of Sabine Cross-Roads. 

" His life was gentle, and the elements 
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, 
And say to all the world, This was a man!" 

Mr. President, these men were private soldiers ; and if I have 
spoken truly and faithfully of them, and if they and their comrades 
of whom I have not spoken were fair representatives of the town, 
shall I not do well to close, and let Hanover's dead speak for her ? 



The Exercises in the Tent. 69 

The Eighteenth Sentiment. — ' ' The Fathers of the Town of 
Hanover." 

The following letter was read : — 

Boston, July 15, 187S. 
The Rev. Wm. Henry Brooks, D.D., President of the Day. 

Dear Sir, — I ver}^ much regret that other engagements will 
prevent my acceptance of the kind invitation extended b}' the 
inhabitants of m^' native town, through yon, to be present at 
the dedication of the Soldiers' Monument on the 17th. If I 
could be with you upon an occasion so full of patriotic memories 
of a regenerated country, and of the courage and patriotism of 
those of my townsmen who participated in that great struggle for 
a united country and equal rights for all, I should shrink from the 
task which you sa}- 3'ou have assigned to me ; namely, to respond 
to the Sentiment, " The Fathers of the Town of Hanover." 

It would require far greater ability than I possess to speak the 
words which will remind the present generation of the great obli- 
gations they are under to those heroic souls, who, more than two 
centuries ago, established themselves near where 3'our memorial 
services are to be held, that they might enjoy unmolested a larger 
liberty both of person and conscience than they could obtain in 
the land of their birth. Theirs is a noble record. 

As successive generations have come and gone, the sons and 
daughters have proved worthy descendants of their mothers and 
their sires in their regard for education, in their respect for law, 
and also in their willingness to suffer, to sacrifice, and to die, if 
need be, in defence of those great ideas and principles upon which 
the Colon}' of Ph'mouth was founded. 

The patriotic and sympathizing spirit which has prompted the 
erection of the Monument, which you will dedicate on Wednesday 
with such impressive and appropriate ceremonies, affords to all 
abundant proof and evidence that the spirit of " the Fathers of 
Hanover" still inspires their children, and that the moral and 
patriotic characteristics which made them conspicuous in their da}' 
and generation have lost none of their force and energy by 
mingling with the changing events of time. 
Yours very truly, 

John Curtis. 



70 Soldiers' and Sailors' Monumeyit. 

The Nineteenth Sentiment. — "The Wives and Daughters of 
Hanover." 

The President of the Day. — There is a peculiar propriety- in 
the choice of the highly-esteemed gentleman about to respond to this 
sweet and attractive Sentiment, he having wooed and won a most 
estimable and helpful wife from the "daughters of Hanover," 
for which he feels increasing!}' grateful. You now have presented 
to you our excellent friend Daniel E. Damon, Esq., the Register 
of Probate for this County. 

RESPONSE or DANIEL E. DAMON, ESQ. 

Mr. President, — As one of these daughters, born and reared 
in the same old mansion where passed the childhood of Rear- Ad- 
miral Smith, of whom we have heard this da}', has been these 
many ^ears the light of my home, and as I can certily from most 
happ3' experience what excellent wives the daughters of Hanover 
make, ni}' heart responds to this Sentiment far better than my fal- 
tering tongue can do. I realize now, as I should have done be- 
fore, the injustice done to them b}' my consenting to respond to 
this toast. The most eloquent spealvcr in the list could not do 
them justice ; but the}- must now pass on with such meagre tribute 
as I can bring. All the suggestions of this occasion are of patri- 
otic devotion to dut}*. In this the women of Hanover have a 
proud record to present. This centennial period of the Republic 
carries the mind naturally back to the wortliy ones of the past. 
One hundred and one years ago, when Israel Perry was appointed 
to make a list of all the Tories in town, his commission evidently 
included both sexes ; for he reported both. Yet, after the most dili- 
gent search, he reported onl}' seven names, — six men, but only one 
woman, Jane Stockbridge. The closest searching, even in a time 
of intense political excitement, when inditfei'ence was construed 
into opposition, could detect no more. Some of the names re- 
ported were placed on the list simpl}- because the}- were Quakers, 
and opposed to all war ; others only because members of the Church 
of England, and not active against the Kiug : so that, in tairness, 
a part even of that short list should be eliminated. But in all 
Hanover there was only one woman suspected of Tor}- sympathies. 
But was it true? It must have been. Who ever knew a woman 



The Exerclises in the Tent. 71 

that was afraid to talk? They always honestly and freelj- express 
their minds on all subjects. If there were more, it must have been 
known. That record must stand ; and, when we remember that 
this woman was the wife of one who had held a commission from 
the royal government for many j-ears, we excuse even her, and 
sa}' this record was a splendid tribute to the patriotism of the 
women of Hanover in that generation. The last speaker has told 
us of the very large number of soldiers which this town contrib- 
uted to the army of the Revolution ; and this home influence largely 
explains it. AVhere all were so patriotic, it might seem unneces- 
sary to select individuals ; but, as illustrative of the patriotism of 
that period, I must refer to one who exhibited her love of country 
under some difficulties, even in Hanover. A year before the out- 
break of hostilities, William Stockbridge, a son of the solitary 
royalist lady before named, married Ruth Bailey, a daughter of 
t^ol. John Bailey of this town, — a brave officer, who served as a 
colonel in the Continental line during the entire war of the Revolu- 
tion. When the war began, the sympathy of the 3'oung man was 
with his mother and the King's cause ; and he was one of the seven 
reported royalists. Not so with his young wife. She threw her 
whole soul into the patriot cause, and worked for it with inspired 
enthusiasm. While her Tor^' husband was at church, or absent on 
business, she worked vigorously with her own hands, making car- 
tridges for her father's soldiers. She did what she could. And 
as the thunders of the Revolution, beginning their reverberation 
around Bunker Hill, rolled awa}- to the south, and the result hung 
so long doubtfuU}' wavering in the balance, and as her otherwise 
kind husband denied or disparaged the wisdom of the uprising for 
libert}', how peculiarl}' hard was the trial of her faith, which never 
faltered, and was rewarded at last with the triumph of the cause 
so long pra3-ed for, and with seeing her mistaken husband grateful- 
ly accept the blessings of citizenship in the new-born Republic ! 
She is selected only as a type of the daughters of Hanover in that 
century. Such was the undying faith, such the patriotic labors, of 
all. There was no rapid railroad transit or electric communica- 
tion of news in those days, and the wearj' watchers left at home 
to their mission of patient suffering and long suspense did not en- 
dure less for libert}' than their friends in camp. 

From such an ancestrj' we should expect to find — when the su- 



72 Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument. 

preme test to our institutions came, when the existence of the 
nation which our fathers established at such cost was at stake — 
descended a race of heroes read}' for the strife, and a generation 
of women worthy of such an ancestry. So it proved. When the 
call came, the soldiers of Hanover were ready. Their wives and 
daughters did not hold them back, but bade them God speed on 
their holy mission. Their busy fingers prepared clothing, and 
whatever woman's ingenuit}' and love could suggest as likely to 
contribute to the comfort of those brave volunteers ; and so they 
sent their loved ones forth to the uncertain fates of war, to death 
by battle and disease, and starvation in the prisons of a barbarous 
foe. And since then the afflicted, and the more fortunate whose 
friends fell not, took up the burden of life together. All have 
faithfulh' bent themselves to tlie labors of peace and home since 
the cruel war was over ; and eminently appropriate and worthy of 
their patriotic endeavors it has been that the women of Hanover 
have labored for and procured this Monument to the memory* of 
the heroic dead, which we dedicate to-da}-. It is a family-offering. 
So interlinked are all the old families of this town, that if we go 
up the stream of years to the time of settlement, and explore all 
the collateral branches, we shall find there is not a famil}' in town, 
not a woman who has contributed to this work, but can claim some 
kinsman among the honored brave. 

Dearer still must this memorial ever look to those who reared it, 
as they remember it was raised by kindred hands to kindred dead. 
This Monument owes its existence to the efforts in its behalf of 
the ladies of Hanover. It was a labor of grateful love. The 
Monument is completed, and gracefully rounds out and completes 
their dut}' as related to the great struggle for the preservation of 
the Union. It lifts itself aloft in view, and bj' the side of those 
laboratories of our national life, the school-house, the town-house, 
and the meeting-house, — an incentive to patriotism as well as a 
monument to the heroic dead, and an emblem of the perfected 
patriotism of the wives and daughters of Hanover. 

If I speak too long, I must be pardoned. All the other speakers 
have talked and are to talk about the men. I am the only person 
designated to say any thing for the women. Much is heard in 
these days — perhaps not too much — of woman's mission. Some 
think they have not opportunity enough, and should occup}' a 



The Exercises in the Tent. 73 

different relation to public affairs. Tlie women of tliis town in 
tiie past seem to have had opportuuit}' and scope enough to de- 
velop all the rare nobilit}' of their nature. The}' seemed to have 
thought it was of little consequence as to whether the}' should 
vote, but as of vital moment that they devote themselves to every 
womanly and every motherly dut}' God placed before them. There 
is often room for the display of the highest heroism and the rarest 
powers in the modest ministries of home. Col. Bailey's daughter, 
Ruth Stockbridge, seems to have found and fulfilled life's loftiest 
mission. A small part of this was the making of cartridges for 
the soldiers of the Revolution. During that stormy period three 
children were born to her, and she faithfully discharged all the 
duties of wife and mother. Eleven children blessed her home ; 
and nine of them grew to manhood and womanhood, all of whom, 
by their strong characters and useful and spotless lives, attested 
the fidelity and wisdom of her maternal training. Thus was 
performed her life's best work for good. 

Cornelia, the Roman matron, with no better teachings than 
pagan philosophy, seems to have comprehended her mission, as she 
pi'oudly pointed to her noble, afterwards highly distinguished 
sons, and said, "These are my jewels." 

Maternit}' is woman's crown ; children the crown-jewels, which 
the humblest mother in the laud may proudly wear and regally 
displa}', provided only their characters are rightly shaped and pol- 
ished. The names of these modest heroines of home ma}' never 
be written like Cornelia's upon the monumental marble ; but they 
are deeply graved upon the hearts of their children, and become 
luminous in their lives. Their names, however, are written in 
heaven, where, ages after earthly monuments are lost in oblivion, 
the names of these shall flash forth in undimmed splendor. And 
possibly there is need that the women of this generation and the 
men of this generation should regard less worldly vanity and dis- 
play, and imitate more faithfully the home virtues of a past gen- 
eration. Virtue and honesty and truth need revival. Love of 
country, and love of God, and regard for His first commandment, 
need revival. 

The old families in New England are dying out. Names once 
honored and numerous are lacking from the list. If, from the 
noble army of sainted mothers who have in the generations past 



74 /Soldiers' and jSailors' Motiurnent. 

gone up from Hanover to heaven, there could come down to-day, 
through the blue expanse above us, a message to their daughters 
of this generation, it would be, " See to it, as you care for huraan- 
it}', as jou love your country- and your God, — see to it, as the first 
and principal work of your life, — that you do your duty faithfully 
and intelllgenth- as mothers." 

All should remember, that if in the future, as in the past, there 
is to be a race of men ready to go lorth at dangei-'s call to the de- 
fence of their country and to guard its homes, the women must 
make those homes worth fighting for and worth dying for, as wei'e 
those for which died the iieroic ones whose names appear on 
j'onder Monument. 

Tlie Twentieth /Sentiment. — "The Former Residents of the 
Town of Hanover." 

Music. — " Auld Lang Syne." 

The President of the Day. — It is a happ}' circumstance that 
the response to this Sentiment is to be made by a gentleman, who, 
in addition to having been an esteemed resident here in the years 
that are past, now so acceptably represents the Ninth Representa- 
tive District of Plymouth County, composed of this Town and the 
adjacent Town of Rockland, in the House of Representatives of 
this Commonwealth, wdiom 1 now, with much pleasure, introduce 
to you, — the Hon. Ezekiel R. Studley of Rockland. 

RESPONSE OF THE HON. E. R. STUDLEY. 

Mr. President, — The good old New-England custom of calling 
home the sons and daughters on important da3S and occasions has 
not been forgotten by you to-da}^ ; and we who have gone away are 
glad to respond to your invitation to come back to the old home- 
stead, to assist as we ma}' in the ceremonies of this Dedication. 

But we are not all here, — oh, no! Hanover, generous in her 
patriotism, could not be otherwise to her neighbors ; and so she 
has not only taken care of herself, but has sent her sons and 
daughters away to help build up other towns. Certainly a consid- 
erable part of \\\y own town would " claim kindred here, and have 
that claim allowed." 

You know, as a matter of history-, that some hundred and fifty 



The Exercises in the Tent. 75 

j-ears ago, when Hanover found it necessaiT to take a slice of the 
territoiy of Abington to make up a town, Abington complained 
of the loss ; and, though in no wise bitter about it, she seems to 
have resolved to get square by carrying oft' all the Hanover girls 
that their 3'oung men could persuade to go. And Hanover, from 
some slight remorse, perhaps, never seems to have resented it, and 
onlv in a few cases retaliated. And the practice has gone on, 
I think, long after the debt had been fully paid. And Abington 
never has repented of the robbery either, but is rather proud of it. 
At an}' rate, it is to that fact that many of us are indebted for the 
honor of being here to-day. 

But we are here to congratulate you on the completion of yonx 
beautiful and substantial Monument to the memory of those who 
died in a noble cause ; for, after all, it is the cause for which 
they died that shall hallow their names forever. The da}- has 
gone by, I think, when mere warlike valor could excite great 
enthusiasm in a people like ours. Bravely as the}' fought, un- 
shrinkingly as they met the terrible shock of battle, and nobly as 
they died, yet for more than this we honor them, — that, when the 
sacrifice must be made, these men, catching the inspiration of their 
old Puritan ancestry of six generations before, went forth with the 
songs of freedom on their lips. And in saying this I do not forget 
that the battle-fields of the Rebellion find but few parallels in the 
history of warlike deeds in the past. I do not forget Antietam, 
with its terrible sacrifices. When, on that day. Gen. Hooker 
found himself hard pressed, he exclaimed, " Send me Hartsuff's 
Brigade." In that brigade was the old Twelfth Regiment, made 
up, in part, of boys from the farms and workshops of your town 
and mine two years before. Unshrinkingly they met the earth- 
quake shock of battle, standing like a wall of fire until relieved. 
Of three hundred and twenty-five of that regiment who went in, 
one hundred and twelve came out unscathed. The heroic valor of 
the Old Guard of Napoleon at Waterloo, which has become historic, 
is paralleled by that regiment on that day. We remember, too, 
those three terrible July days, fifteen years ago, when we waited 
and watched those slender blue lines standing between Northern 
homes and a desperate and determined foe, determined to call the 
roll, not of his slaves, — it was too late for that, — but of his sol- 
diers, on Bunker Hill. Those blue lines were lines of steel that 



76 Suldiers and Sailors' Monument. 

nothing could break, and the history of the first and last invasion 
of the Xorth b}' rebels was written in disaster and defeat. When 
the first battle of Bull Run was fought, the army was character- 
ized as an aggregate of town-meetings ; and there was truth in 
the remark. It was an aggregate of town-meetings ; and we are 
proud of the fact. For, mark you, four years later those town- 
meetings stood before the gates of Richmond with the keys in 
their hands, veterans of a hundred battle-fields, victorious at last. 
Mr. President, 3-ou dedicate this Monument to heroes in a noble 
cause. But it shall be more than that: it shall be an inspiration 
for the future. Yonder, at Plymouth, looking down on Plymouth 
Rock, stands the beautiful Monument to the Pilgrim Fathers, with 
its statue of Faith pointing towards Heaven. Here, and in other 
towns scattered all over our loved Commonwealth, stand these 
humbler memorials of tlie realization of that faith through sac- 
rifice. 

In future years, if danger shall come from foes without or cor- 
ruption within, we, and our children after us, shall gather around 
these Monuments, and, standing beneath their shadow, shall swear 
by the " green graves of our sires," and by these newer graves of 
our brothers whom we remember to-da}-, that the tree thej' reared 
shall live, and live forever; that "government of the people, /c»r 
the people, and by the people, shall not perish from the face of the 
earth!" 

The Twenty-first Sentiment. — " The Town of Scituate." 

The greater part of the Town of Hanover having been taken 
from the Town of Scituate, it was most appropriate that a Senti- 
ment in honor of the ancient and noted Town should be given. 

The Response was made in the form of a \Qvy vigorous and beau- 
tiful sonnet by Mrs. George Lunt, which was read : — 

SONNET BY MRS. ADELINE T. LUNT. 

Soldiers and Sailors! names to nations dear, 
Whom Fortune chose to bear the hero's part, 
Your tablet is engraven on the heart; 
Nor need we jDillar for your dust to rear. 
Fate, that did doom you to an early bier, 
Witli Fame embahned you in its love so long, 
That now your record writes itself in song. 



The Exercises in the Tent. 77 

Nor War shall longer with its deadly spear 
Arouse our sluuibering soldiery again. 
So, if this age its lesson rightly read, 
The granite shall not lift itself in vain : 
For Peace this Monument shall ever plead; 
Nor kin, turned foes, their hostile part shall play 
Again, where Freedom holds benignant sway. 
SciTOATE, Mass., July 17, 1878. 

The Twenty-second Sentiment. — " The Reverend Clergy." 

The President of the Day. — The Response to this Sentiment 
is to be made by one wliose fidelity in the inculcation of all the 
duties incumbent on men as individuals, as neighbors, as citizens, 
and, above all, as Christians, is equalled only by the peacefulness 
of his disposition, and the blamelessness of his life. 

It affords me much happiness to present to 3-ou the Rev. Cyrus 
W. Allen, Pastor of the First Congregational Church. 

response of the rev. C. W. ALLEN. 

Mr. President, — It might be supposed that this Sentiment, 
"The Reverend Clergy," to which I am requested to respond, 
would be out of place on this occasion. It is their profession to 
preach a gospel of peace ; but we are here to honor the deeds and 
the men of war. But yet a moment's reflection will make it 
apparent that the Sentiment is by no means entirely irrelevant. 
The clergy did much to bring on the war, with all its sacrifices and 
sufferings. They preached righteousness, which exalteth a nation. 
Thej- defended the cause of the oppressed and enslaved, and they 
proclaimed in their ministrations liberty to all the people of the 
land. They could consistently do no less than this. And they 
have contributed also to mitigate the evils of the war. By their 
labors, and by administering the consolations of the gospel to 
the sick and the dying, to the widow and the fatherless, and thus 
alleviating the sad consequences of the war, it may safely be said 
they have acted an important part. Nor have such services yet 
come to a close, as many of them are reminded almost daily in the 
performance of their professional duties. Besides this, it should 
not be forgotten that the clergy acted a conspicuous and important 
part in laying the foundations of this great nation, especially in 
New England ; and in determining what should be the character of 



78 Soldiers' and Sailors Monument. 

onr civil and social institutions. If ever there was a nation on 
the earth of which it raaj- be said the clergj' were great and good 
men from the beginning, and that their wisdom and counsel were 
often called into requisition, and greatly relied on, it certainlj* 
may be said to be true of this nation. And they have by no means 
been indifferent spectators of the several wars that have occurred 
in its history and progress to the present. It is because the clergy 
have been what they were, that, to a large extent, our soldiers have 
been what they were, — so patriotic, so self-sacrificing. I take it 
upon me to sa}*, as my deliberate opinion, and not mine alone, 
that if there had been no churches in our land, where the clergy 
proclaimed the truths and duties of the gospel, and applied their 
teachings to the various classes and exigencies of the Common- 
wealth, there would be no soldiers' monuments to mark its histor}', 
and to illustrate its patiiotism ; nor would that Meeting-house and 
that Monument just before us stand so near to one another, and 
look upon one another with such mutual respect. 

With all the errors and deficiencies of the clergy, they have, as 
a class, ever been, from the beginning, a power for good in our land, 
and never more so than in times of danger and war. 

Mr. Allen recited as appropriate, in the close of his remarks, 
the poet Cowper's tribute to the clergy : — 

" The pulpit, therefore (and I name it filled 
With solemn awe, that bids me well beware 
With what intent I touch the holy thing), 
Must stand acknowledged, while tlie world shall stand, 
The most important and effectual guard, 
Support, and oiiiament of Virtue's cause. 
There stands the messenger of truth, there stands 
The legate of the skies, his theme divine, 
His office sacred, liis credentials clear. 
By him the violated law speaks out 
Its thimders; and by him, in strains as sweet 
As angels use, the gospel whispers peace. 
He stablishes the strong, restores the weak, 
Reclaims the wanderer, binds the broken heart, 
And, armed himself in panoply complete 
Of heavenly temper, furnishes with arms 
Bright as his own, and trains, by every rule 
Of holy discipline, to glorious war, 
The sacramental host of God's elect." 



The Exercises in the Tent. 79 

The Twenty-third Sentiment. — " Education." 

The President of the Day. — The name of the gentleman 
selected to repl}' to this Sentiment brings to m}' mind a circum- 
stance, which I cannot refrain from relating. Last October, on 
one of the da^'s during which the Fair for the Monument was held, 
as I was leaving the hall, his venerable and venerated father, — 
Mr. Lemuel Dwelley, — whose " hoary head was a crown of glory, 
being found in the way of righteousness," stopped me, and en- 
joined upon me, with all the vigor and earnestness he could com- 
mand, the duty of carrying on the good work to its successful 
completion. 

How happy would he have been could he in the flesh have been 
present to-day, and seen yonder noble memorial of the valor of 
our heroic dead ! But it pleased God to order otherwise, — to take 
him to Himself. However, who can sa^- that he is not in spiiit 
here with us, and that he has not been a happy witness of all the 
CA'cnts of this day? 

I have the pleasure of announcing to 3"ou as the next speaker 
Mr. George Russell Dwelle3' of Arlington Heights. 

Mr. Dwelle^', supposing that the time allotted for the reading 
of Sentiments and the making of Responses would have been 
exhausted before the Sentiment to which he had been invited to 
respond had been reached, had left the tent. 

In compliance with a request made to him, he has furnished the 
following for a Response : — 

RESPONSE OF MR. GEORGE R. DWELLEY. 

Mr. President, — I thank you for 3'our kindly allusion to my 
father. It recalls, and without pain, " the tender grace of a day 
that is dead." It brings afresh before me a character which was 
nothing if not manlj-, nothing if not upright, and nothing if not 
generous. It reminds me, too, that he knew — as at some time we 
all come to know — ■ that the ultimate aim of the best education is 
to inspire impersonal ambitions, and to produce nobilit}' of life. 

And, in giving such education, the schools of Hanover, and of 
hundreds of our countrj^ towns, — unpretending though they are, — 
have stood and now stand on an equality with college and univer- 
sity. Of the young men whose self-devotion 3'onder Monument 



80 Soldiers' and Sailors'' Monument. 

commemorates, but one, I think, had received a higher education 
than your public schools can give. But the lesson of patriotism, 
of dutN-, and of self-sacrifice, was as thoroughly learned in these 
schools as anywhere above them ; and their graduates, in the 
flower of youth, at the call of country, laid down their lives as 
cheerfully, and with motives as pure and unselfish, as did a Shaw 
or a Winthrop. 

But the inestimable worth of the public schools in the War of 
the Rebellion was illustrated in other ways besides the braver}^ of 
3'our soldiers living and dead. The enthusiasm which sent 3'our 
volunteers to the fi'ont was but a part of the general enthusiasm. 
The intelligence, the foresight, and the breadth of view, bred in 
the schools of the nation, enabled all to comprehend the magnitude 
of the struggle, and to bear with patient serenity loss and failure 
and privation, justified the vast preparations and expenditure, and 
converted what might otherwise have been the irregular impulses 
of patriotism into a constant and colossal energ}' of elTort for the 
preservation of the Union. 

The public schools of the country saved the countr}'. And 3'et 
the benefits conferred by them in that critical period of the Re- 
public — bej'ond measure as they unquestionably were — form but 
a single manifestation of their many-sided excellence. There is 
not a face among you the}' have not helped to illuminate, not a 
heart thej' have not helped to refine. They have quickened sympa- 
thies, sharpened perception, exalted aims, deepened convictions, 
enlarged capacity, and ennobled character, in you all. Let us hope 
they may always continue to l)e — what they have been in the past, 
and are to-day — fountains of knowledge and blessing. 

Tlie Twenty-fourth Sentiment. — " The Law." 

The President of the Day. — The presence of the gentleman 
who is to respond to this Sentiment is a source of very sincere 
pleasure to his many friends. The son of a former Pastor — now 
resting from all earthly labor — of the Church near which we are 
now assembled, and whose sacred ministrations and godly charac- 
ter are affection atel}' remembered, he must feel that he is not 
among strangers, but at home. 

I am happy to have the opportunit}* of introducing to 3'ou 
William Pale}' Duncan, Esq., of Boston. 



The Exercises in the Tent. 81 



RESPONSE OF WILLIAM PALEY DUNCAN, ESQ. 

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, — I am exceedingly 
gmteful for this tender reference to m}- honored father, and assure 
you I am glad to be here to-da}', and feel veiy much at home, 
because I am at mj' childhood's dear old home. In responding to 
the sentiment "IVie Laio," I may be permitted to define it in 
the words of Sir William Blackstone, the eminent English jurist : 
"Law is a rule of action, commanding what is right, and prohibit- 
ing what is wrong." A lawyer, of all men, should be patriotic 
and law-abiding ; but sometimes, in the contemplation of Statute 
law, as " a solemn expression of Legislative w-ill," lawyers are led 
to ask how it is possible to be law-abiding, when the law itself is 
not an abiding law, and our Legislature one year will pass a law, 
and the next 3'ear repeal it, and perhaps enact its veiy opposite in 
spirit and effect. And, speaking of Statute law, it is related of a 
law-student, on his application for admission to the bar, after a 
long and severe course of examination, the Judge abrupt!}' asked 
him if he understood the "General Statutes" of Massachusetts. 
The young man promptlj' replied, " No, sir." Whereupon the 
Judge commended him, saving, "It is well you did not say 3'ou 
understood the Statutes of Massachusetts : for I have been upon 
the Bench for many j-ears, and do not understand them myself, 
and never expect to ; and, further, I consider no man's life and 
property to be wliolU' safe wiiile our Legislature is in session." 
Fortuuatelv, however, our Governors frequently have the good 
sense to veto enactments unwise and extravagant. But the law, 
divested of all partisan legislation, of all excrescences of special 
acts for private emolument and profit, is a system of Jurisprudence 
august and symmetrical, humane in its severity, and beautiful in 
its humanity, — wortli living for, and worth dying for, — being at 
the very foundation of our civil and religious polity, and tlie root 
and source whence our success and renown, as a nation, have 
emanated: and, in defence of law, those heroes, whose names are 
enrolled to-da}' upon yonder beautiful Shaft, fought, bled, and 
died ; whose memories we tenderly cherish ; whose virtues we 
recount so often and so tearfullj". Ah me ! it seems but yesterday 
you saw them go forth to fight the battles of the Union ; but 3'es- 
terday the drum-beat stimulated the heart-beat ; but 3'esterday 



82 Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument. 

high resolves and noble purposes were the order of the hour ; and 
in defence of constitutional law and our Bill of Rights, of " life, 
libert}', and the pursuit of happiness," the}- went forth, soon — 
ah ! too soon — to give up their 3'oung lives on the altar of fi'eedom 
and their country's honor. And I submit, if ever a war was waged 
in defence of righteous law, this war for the suppression of the 
Rebellion was. And the same principles moved and animated the 
men of the Revolution and the war of 1812. Mr. President, I 
know not if manj' lawjers from Hanover were engaged in our 
wars; but this I do know, — the profession was ably and nobly 
represented throughout the Union, and patriotism has never been 
greatly- lacking in its ranks. 

The Latin poet hath it, ^'-Dulce et decorum, mori pro patria," — 
"Jt is sweet and decorous to die for one's native land ; " and sweet 
it is for surviving friends to witness, on monumental shaft or mar- 
ble tablet, the names of those they loved and lost. But I cannot 
forget, to-day, at the head of the grave of many a Union soldier in 
Southern soil, may be found a little wooden tablet, with the simple 
legend inscribed thereon, ^'■Unknown." 

I am no poet, but I beg leave to offer a tribute of verse to their 
memory ; and possibly the hearts of some of you go back with 
mine to the lonely resting-place of the 

UNKNOWN". 

Unknown, unknown they sleep, 

Those martyred braves, 

In unknown graves ; 
And unknown loved ones weep. 
The autumn sun shines warm ; 

October's breeze 

Scatters her leaves 
Over each sleeping form : 
They reck it not, — unknown, unknown ! 

Unknown, unknown are homes 

That ne'er forget, 

Awaiting yet 
The step that never comes. 
Sweet songsters o'er each mound 

Poise on their wing, 

And sadly sing 
Grief's requiem profound: 
They seem to say, "Unknown, unknown!" 



The JExercises in the Teyit. 83 

Unknown, unknown are they 

That sleep so low. 

We may not know : 
Yet in that final day 
Our God shall name each one; 

Those forms shall rise, 

And in the skies 
Each hero shall be known. 
Then none so dear as now unknown. 

The Tioenty-Jifth Sentiment. — "The Surgeons of the Arm}-." 

The President of the Day. — " It is the doctor, who, in some 
degree at least, is making himself Christ to the suffering and the 
sorrowing among mankind. 

" He it is who turns out of his bed at midnight to cool the poor 
man's burning lips, or succor a woman with the tenderest efforts 
of his skill." 

We have with us to-day a ph^'sician of this character ; but he 
has been asked to respond to the Sentiment just read because of 
the devotion of his knowledge and skill to the healing of the dis- 
eases, and to the surgical treatment of injuries, incident to war. 

It is with real pleasure that I present to j'ou John O. French, 
M.D. 

RESPONSE OF JOHN O. FRENCH, M.D. 

Mr. President, — The surgeons of the late war can fully tes- 
tify to the bravery of the soldiei's. Heroism is ot complex shades : 
to die on the field of battle is not the deepest ; and easy it is, com- 
paratively', to follow where gallant officers lead, with steps accorded 
to martial music, and where the enthusiasm of numbers, in exult- 
ant crj', spurs one on impetuously to the foe. 

The atmosphere now gray, now lurid, from flash of rifle, and 
belch of brass- throated cannon, the hoarse shouts of powder- 
stained men, are grand accessories of the soldier's death. To us, 
to-day the scene is demoniacal ; but is it not a grand picture, and 
does it not wrap death in a red glory, contrasted with the acces- 
sories of those whose pallid faces pressed hospital pillows, and 
whose plaintive voices moaned their lives away in protracted ago- 
nies? We savv much of this ; and, I assure you, heroism had its 
greatest strain when subjected to such a test. The lingering life 



84 Soldiers' and Sailors'' Monument. 

upon the cot gave tests never known to instant death, — pain 
more acute than the inquisition of old could inflict, and memories 
of liomes never more to be seen, and ineffable loves never to meet 
fruition. To await death, with faculties keen to suffer and to 
remember, and to then acknowledge it a godlike glor}' to die for 
one's countr}', display's a magnificence of heroism. 

The lifting of the dying from battle-fields, the going from cot to 
cot in hospital-life, gave the surgeon a grim knowledge of the hor- 
rors of war ; and, if nation dealing with nation in conference had 
their council formed of surgeons, the pacific word and yielding 
attitude of sentiment would do awaj^ with many a settlement by 
the sword. Men in such consultation talk much of national 
honor, and deal in exalted utterances that should be tempered by 
a grim knowledge of the entailment of misery' their oft obstinate 
fiats must develop. 

Philanthropy and heart should be co-workers with intellect. 

None can sa}' " Honor to our country's dead " with more emo- 
tion than the surgeons of the army. 

This Cenotaph is well. Memorial tablets should attest to ever}' 
age who perished in a nation's cause. 

The Twenty-sixth Sentiment. — " Charitable Organizations." 
Music. — "Charity." 

The President of the Day. — Every enterprise for the alle- 
viation of the misery and the promotion of the welfare of men 
finds a warm sympathizer and a ready advocate and woiker in the 
reverend gentleman who is now to address us. 

His cordial co-operation in ever^' measure in behalf of the sol- 
diers, either in the field or at home, has endeared him to ver}^ 
many. 

I am happy to present to j'ou the Rev. Andrew Read, Pastor of 
the Baptist Church. 

RESPONSE OF THE REV. ANDREW READ. 

Mr. President, — No people has much of which to boast, Avith- 
out the organizations for which I am called to respond. The 
name. Charitable, has a general and a particular sense. In gen- 
eral, it is love, benevolence, and good-will ; in particular, while 



The Exercises in the Tent. 85 



it includes the first, it is something which springs or leaps out of 
the natural relations of life in which man is placed, and which 
are ahva^ys calling for the charities of life. A charitable institu- 
tion is a thing of life and beauty, moulded into rare loveliness 
by the civil and religious liberties of lands blessed with the lights 
of Revealed Truth, which says, " Go your way, eat the fat and 
drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing 
is prepared." The fat and the sweet of our own land are its 
Charitable Organizations, of which the Christian Church is the 
noblest, and is the mother of them all. Resting on this founda- 
tion, the}' have the elements of an immortal life. 

Every nation has its beginnings and its developments. Our 
national starting-point was not Jamestown, but Plymouth, from 
whence went forth a civilization based upon the teachings of 
Scripture and Providence ; and for two centuries and a half this 
civilization has been developing itself. It has been wonderful in 
its progress, full of hope to man, and the noblest charities have 
followed in its course. In its history it cannot be called one of 
war and conquest, but one of blessing to the world. 

The word Charitable, as we use it here, is confined to particular 
organized societies. These are, most of them, represented here 
on this glad occasion. Just what we might expect ; for they are 
one and inseparable with ever}' good word and work. Charities 
are sometimes, yea, often, born of circumstances : and it is true, 
that from the great struggle for freedom in our own land came 
forth two of the grandest Charitable Organizations the world ever 
saw ; A'iz., the Sanitary and Christian Commissions, — one to care 
for the bodies of men, the other for both the body and soul. 
Such organizations were, before, unknown to modern warfare. 
They did much on the field, in the camp, and in the hospital, to 
alleviate the sufferings of war. They were the Lord's angels of 
mercy to men, deprived of all the influences and comforts of home. 
And since then, after gathered armies in other lands, these same 
charities have followed in their Christ-like work, in a spirit caught 
from the words of .Jesus: "All things whatsoever ye would that 
men should do unto you, do ye even so unto them." 

But it is not necessary here to mention particular charities. 
Their existence and names are well known, and are fragrant in all 
the world. How, we may well ask, can they be otherwise, when 



86 Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument. 



thej draw their life's blood from Him who is the independent 
source of happiness to all that lives? And their charities are not 
limited by the character of those who are in want. The Lord 
causes His sun to shine on tlie evil and the good, and sends His 
rain on the just and on the unjust. In this He has given a law of 
universal application, to do good, to relieve want and suffering, 
irrespective of tlie moral character of the sufferer, from whom we 
can never expect an}- thing in return. Charitable Organizations 
become religious institutions when they dispense good from love 
to God and man ; when the}' care for body and soul both, acting 
upon the command, "Love 3our enemies, bless them that curse 
you ; do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again ; and j'our 
reward shall be great, and y& shall be the children of the Highest ; 
for He is kind to the unthankful and to the evil." The impor- 
tance of our Charitable Organizations arises from the fact that God 
has so made man, that he is of necessity', sometimes at least, 
dependent upon the benevolence of others. "The poor ye have 
alwaj's with 3'ou." It is not alwa3s a man's own act that renders 
him destitute. Sickness, old age, accidents, the loss of property, 
and death, which makes widows and orphans, step in, and make 
up the account. From the real necessity of our Charitable Organ- 
izations in relieving suffering and want, we see the necessity of 
sustaining them with all that is needful to carry on their work. 
That there is sufficient for this is an unquestionable fact. " Oh 
for the wealth of P^ngland ! " said Rowland Hill when pleading 
for means to carry forward the interests of Christ's kingdom in 
all the world. But one who followed him said, " M}'' Brother 
Hill asks for the wealth of England : I ask only for the waste of 
England." Oh for the waste of America to meet the crj' of sup- 
pliant misery ; to make the close of one live, warm act of charit}' 
the commencement of another ; to make our Charitable Organiza- 
tions the shrine of relief to human want and suffering ! 

The Twenty -seventh Sentiment. — "The Duties of Young Men 
to the Republic." 

Music. — " Happy Land ! Happy Land ! " 

The President of the Day. — The reverend gentleman who 
is to respond to this Sentiment has but very recently commenced 



The Exercises in the Tent. 87 

his labors in this town. He has, however, b}' the manifestation 
of especial interest in the 3'onng, awakened in them a correspond- 
ing interest in principles and measures relating to their safety and 
success in life. 

I have great satisfaction in presenting to 30U tlie Rev. Augustus 
P. Rein, Pastor of the Universalist Church. 

RESPONSE OF THE KEY. A. P. REIN. 

Mr. President, — In the Republic we recognize the highest type 
and best possible form of government ; and this because under such 
a form of national life, so to speak, we find the power not invested 
in one, or a chosen few, but substantially in the pcoiile, and the 
representatives of the people, by popular election. That form of 
government which allows the greatest possible number an interest 
in it, which admits of a free expression of opinion and liberal inter- 
change of ideas and thoughts, wherein the laws are discovered and 
framed into executive force bj' men selected by the best intelligence 
of the largest number who act and think independently, which 
extends to all its citizens equal rights and equal chances of politi- 
cal advancement and influence, must, in the nature of things, be 
better than any type of government that is less broad, and less 
open to the best influences which its subjects can exert on it. 

It happens to be our privilege to live under a republican form of 
political life ; and while in every respect our standard may not be 
realized, while we may not see the best possible form of a Repub- 
lic in our land, and while there may ba many who do not enjoy 
such privileges as they desire, we still believe that in our own land 
we are enjoying the advantages of the best and freest land, and 
wisest, most intelligent, and most charitable government, in exist- 
ence. 

The task of speaking on the Duties of Young Men to the 
Republic has been assigned me, ladies and gentlemen. While 
the theme aflbrds an excellent opportunity for eulogy of our in- 
stitutions, I feel, should I fail to be practical and earnest, I should 
in a measure prove faithless to the opportunity and the subject. 

The Republic offers special benefits in number and character too 
numerous to mention, 3'et of such a nature that none can fail to 
discover and appreciate them. Primarily we enjoy the right of 
free speech, public education, the privilege of popular elections. 



Soldiers and Sa'lors' Monument. 



and freedom in religions observances. INIen hold three things 
deurer than life itself, — the right to Avorship God as tlie heart and 
mind dictate, freedom in the broadest and best sense of that 
term, and the pui-it}- of domestic life. The earh* English settle- 
ment in Holland, the sailing of "The Mayflower" with its cargo 
of true hearts and noble men. and the revolt of the Colonies, do 
not stand on the pages of History as I'ebellions or impatient acts 
of dissatisfied and ignoi'ant men, but tlu'v stand as acts which are 
the expression of thoughts which indicate th'3 high estimate in 
which men hold the three principles just mentioned. That free- 
dom in social life, in national life, and in thought, might be en- 
jo^-ed, our forefathers braved the perils of the seas, the dangers 
of our New-England coast, and tlie severities of our Northern win- 
ters. Our ancestors, as the richest legacies, have bequeathed, in 
the Republic, these blessings to us ; and we, like grateful sons, 
should cherish, honor, and perpetuate them, leaving them to our 
children as rare treasures. These privileges, however good they 
may be, and however beneficent in their operation, are of little, of 
no value, to ns or others, unless we as citizens, and as young men 
growing to citizenship, are loyal to their claims on us. That we 
may enjoy political privileges, state rights, and national blessings, 
we must master the lesson of FIDELITY" as sincerely and as 
personall}' in regard to these as we master it in relation to atfairs 
which touch us more directly in our daily experiences. 

The Republic lias special — shall I not sa}' necessary and indis- 
putable? — claims upon all. Vigor and stability are only attained 
in any thing as the conditions innate to the life of that special thing 
are obe3-ed. The claims which the Republic places upon us are 
the necessities of its being expressing themselves to its subjects 
for their approval and observance, that it may gain strength b^' 
their support. However good in itself the best type of political 
life ma}' be, it cannot long exist, at least in full vigor, unless its 
subjects loyally answer its needs. 

I would urge upon you, not in the moment of excited speech, 
nor without careful consideration and [)rudence, but in sincere 
earnestness, to be first ivise as to the high privileges 3-our land 
affords 3'ou, and then faithful and cheerful m your devotion to the 
claims, great and small, state and national, municipal and domes- 
tic, which your institutions impose on you. 



The Exercises in the Tent. 89 

A German thinker has said that one's destiny is " his own sonl 
translated into a career, the spectre of iiimself in events." Tiiat 
is to say, one's life and character becomes substantial!}- that which 
he makes it b}' placing into visible acts and expi'essed thoughts the 
conceptions and feelings he entertains in his own mind. In a 
larger sense it ma}- be said that a nation substantially, and indeed 
truly, becomes that which its citizens make it. The life of a 
nation or a state is but the combined life of its inhabitants ; and 
the character of the life of a state or a nation will depend solely 
on the type of manhood of its citizens. If in a community 3'ou 
have intelligent, loyal, and peace-loving and law-abiding men, 
you will enjoy freedom from molestation, injustice, and despotism. 
The opposite of this will be equally true. And what do we deduce 
from this, but that the American Republic will become just what 
its subjects make it? — either a noble., strong, healthy, virtuous, 
and true Republic, or else a mean, iveaJc, lifeless, political-torn, 
Rwd party-ridden apology for a Republic. 

We cannot, either as old or young men, veglect the duties we 
owe the Republic, except at our peril. There is ever the neces- 
sity of our learning the positive value and absolute need of fidelity 
in every concern in life, and particularly in political life. Fidelity, 
young men, which is always an essential condition of prosperity 
and peace, is specially now the great need of the hour and the 
times ; and he who soonest learns the lesson, and puts it into 
practice, will be accounted the wisest man. 

The main, and, in ftict, the only duty a young man has to per- 
form to the Republic, is that of patriotism ; for patriotism, in its 
spirit and intent, is of such nature, that it comprises all the duty 
one owes his native land or adopted countr}-. 

Patriotism means something more than the simple performance 
of the claims of citizenship. Patriotism, when genuine, means 
love of country ; love of the principles one's own institutions 
are built upon ; love of every interest that concerns the welfare 
of the nation. The patriotic man is not the one, who, on stated 
occasions, manifests his interest by loud demonstrations, wordy 
harangues, or noisy outbursts. Patriotism is made of sterner and 
better stuff. The true patriot is he who knows the needs of his 
land ; who masters, or tries to master, problems, social and politi- 
cal, that most deeply concern his times ; who learns the present 



90 Soldiers" and Sailors' Monument. 



needs of his land, and places himself in harmony with them : 
and he is a man, who, while he loves his own land, is not blind to 
its defects, the pernicious practices of dislo3'al citizens, the dangers 
that threaten, and the evils that exist, and has the moral courage, 
and firmness of character, that will enable him to live true to his 
conception of right, purity, and manly citizenship, in the face of 
all opposing influences and party schemings. 

Determine to know the best interests of the Republic, and your 
duty in regard to them, and, as best you may, labor to advance 
them. Unless you do this, " Citizen " will not be a title applicable 
to 3'ou. Cultivate a broad intellectual grasp, not selfishly, but that 
by it you may handle the great social problems that concern you, 
and thus render yourself of use to your day and generation. 
Become, in a word, noble citizens. Above all, be true, be noble, 
be courageous defenders of freedom, of liberty, of correct social 
institutions; and, finall}', be Christian men. 

You may think that some of the principles that have been advo- 
cated, if not exactly Utopian, are at least almost impossible of 
being practically handled and realized. It is very true, that to be 
truly patriotic requires much labor, and great prudence, and large 
patience. Yet it is possible for young men, and old ones too, to 
do their whole duty. Our early ancestors did their duty ; and why 
cannot we? 

While I point out for your consideration the grandeur of the 
Republic, while I urge you to understand its needs, and while I 
beseech j'ou to be loyal as citizens, I cannot feel I am properly 
performing the task assigned me unless I point you to some of the 
great evils and threatening dangers that confront us, I do not 
desire to assume the words or manner of an alarmist ; yet men who 
are usually prudent and thoughtful, and who are intimate with the 
conditions of the land, tell us that we are threatened by Socialistic 
principles and Communistic organizations. Let this be as it may. 
See to it that you do your duty. Should it prove that there are 
those who secretly try to undermine our institutions ; who are 
covertly trying to spread principles antagonistic to Christian civili- 
zation and pure morality ; who are trying to persuade us that the 
good old-fashioned virtues of our ancestors are outgrown, — if 
these things should prove so, have the courage and manliness to 
strike to the earth the coivardly and vile hand that dares aim a blow 
at what our fathers gained by blood and treasure! 



The Exercises in the Tent. 91 



We are threatened by an epidemic of dishonesty, — dishonesty 
in political life, in places of great responsibility and large trust, 
that is worse, if possible, than any Socialistic evil. We have no 
need of men in public places that are mere politicians or party 
statesmen ; but we are greatly in need of true men that possess the 
right instincts of true statesmen. It causes us to blush as we eon- 
template the midnight revellings of our " statesmen " (?), who, in 
their maudlin condition, ballot on financial questions, and strive to 
handle great social problems. We hide for very shame the coun- 
tenance, when we must confront the ft\ct that we send men to 
positions of trust which they are unworthy of. Still let me ask, 
whether we as citizens, or our public men, are to blame for these 
things? If incompetents gain office, and we wink at corruption, 
do we not most richly deserve all the ills we suffer? 

Comment on these facts will not greatly assist us. We need 
active opposition to them ; and it is to you, young men, that we look 
for the planting of such principles of rectitude, virtue, and patriot- 
ism, as will in due time strongly and surely oppose right against 
wrong, virtue against vice, and courage against cowardice. 

The Prksident of the Day. — It is very pleasant to see here a 
gentleman from an adjacent town, well and gratefully known for 
his active interest in whatever pertained to the welfare and com- 
fort of the brave men who went forth from that town to suffer and 
die that the Union might be preserved. 

In recognition of this noble interest, and also of his services 
as President of the Day at the Dedication of the Soldiers' and 
Sailors' Monument in that town on the 3d of this month, he has 
been invited to address you. 

I now, with much pleasure, present to you the Hon. Samuel 
Tolraan of South Scituate. 

ADDRESS OF THE HON. SAMUEL TOLMAN. 

Mr. President, — It gives me great pleasure to be here on this 
occasion. Please accept my thanks for the honor of an invitation 
to participate in the pleasures of this day. I join with my friends, 
I think, with more thorough satisfaction, when assembled to honor 
the brave men who oflered themselves living sacrifices on the altar 
of their country, than on any other occasion. And while we come 



92 Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument. 

together Itere to confer special honor, on the slain, and those who 
either died of starvation in Rebel prisons, or passed away far from 
home and friends in Military hospitals, let not those who remain, 
and are once more citizens among ns, imagine for a moment that 
we attribute to them a purpose less noble, a patriotism less pure. 
They, like us, will soon, ver^' soon, be called hence ; and coming 
generations will not fail to remember them with deserving 
gratitude. 

But the closing hour of this lovely summer's day admonishes 
me to be very brief. Therefore it would be wrong for me to 
make a speech, if I could : 3'et, although I cannot, I am quite sure 
I can in some measure appreciate the speeches of others ; and I 
have been, as never before, interested in, and carried away by, 
the patriotic eloquence to which 1 have listened. Why, Mr. 
President, can you believe me, that, when a lioy, I determined to 
be an orator m^yself ? Yes, sir, I certainly did ; and my success 
has been prett}' much the same as that of the young man who 
determined to make a fortune, which he set at fourteen millions. 
He said he managed finally to get the fourteen, but the ciphers 
always bothered him. 

It has been m}- good fortune to have been present on this most 
interesting occasion, during all its exercises, from their commence- 
ment to their close. I have seen the whole thing through from 
beginning to end ; and I pronounce it an unqualified success. 
Nothing has occurred to mar our full enjoyment : no element of 
friction has appeared ; and what we have seen and heard will be 
ever remembered with great satisfaction. 

I am most happy, ladies and gentlemen, to congratulate 30U on 
this perfect consinuraation of your wishes to honor the fallen 
heroes of your town. While the wealth of cities may erect much, 
more costly monuments in honor of their slain, these more humble 
memorials, offered by so many towns throughout our land, are to 
our hearts no less dear. They all bear the names of husbands, 
brothers, sons, who poured out theii- blood to redeem a common 
country. 

Once more permit me, with all my heart, to congratulate you 
on the success of these dedicatory services in every particular, 
and especially on the most excellent selection 3'ou made for the 
President of the Da}'. 



The Uxercimes m the Tent. 93 



At this stage of the exercises, the following Resolution was pre- 
sented by the Hon. Jedediah Dwelle}- of Hanover, Avhich, after 
being seconded by Samuel Tolman, Esq., of South Scituate, and 
E. Y. Perry, p]sq., of Hanover, accompanied b}' a few remarks 
from the latter gentleman, was unanimously adopted. 

REMARKS OF, AND RESOLDTION OFFERED BY, THE HON. JEDEDIAH 

DWELLEY. 

Ladies and Gentlemen, — Before we separate, I desire to occu- 
py a moment's time. One of the most, perhaps tJie most dis- 
tinguished guest of the occasion, has been pleased to sa^^ that this 
has been one of the few celebrations in his experience where the 
programme has been carried out promptly, and to the letter : and 
one of the citizens of this town — a gentleman celebrated be3'ond 
its limits — has suggested to me that proper recognition should be 
given the man, who, more than an}' other, is entitled to the credit 
of the happy manner in which the ceremonies of the day have been 
conducted ; and it gives me great pleasure to offer the following 

resolution. 

Resolved, That the thanks of this assembly be extended to the 
Rev. Dr. Bi'ooks for his efforts in behalf of the Soldiers' Monu- 
ment from its inception to its completion, and especiall}' for the 
courteous and efficient manner in which he has performed the 
duties of President of the Day. 

REMARKS OF E. Y. PERRY, ESQ., IN SUPPORT OF THE RESOLUTION. 

Ladies and Gentlemen, — It is with a great deal of pleasure 
that I rise to second this Resolution, because it is so just, and so 
richl}' deserved. 

Although 3our Committee on the Monument have done their 
work well, have served 3'ou faithfull}' ; although the Ladies of Han- 
over have contributed bountifully toward the success of this da}', 
— 3-et we are very largely, moi'n??/ indebted to the industry, the 
energ}', and the wonderful executive ability, of our worthy Presi- 
dent, for the large proportions, the array of talent from abroad, 
the clockwork regularit}' and harmony of the exercises, and the 
unparalleled success, of this Monumental Convention. 

I doubt that any one in this assembly has any idea of the amount 



94 Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument. 

of labor, the fabulous volume of correspondence, the time and ex- 
pense, that Dr. Brooks has devoted to the arrangement of these 
exercises. No other citizen of the town of Hanover could have 
secured a moiety of these results. 

While this Resolution expresses my own sentiments, I do not 
doubt that it also expresses the sentiments of every Individual in 
this assembl}" ; and I bespeak for it a cordial and unanimous adop- 
tion. 

Now, Mr. President, if 3'ou will allow me, I will take the sense 
of this Convention on the Resolution. 

The President of the Day. — I should be less than human not 
to be deeply affected by this expression of the kind regard and 
generous appreciation of my highly-respected townsmen. 

To desire the good- will and esteem, when not undeserved, of 
one's neighbors, is both meet and right. Not to so desire would 
indicate an absence of regard for the wishes and feelings of our 
fellow-men an}' thing but commendable. 

I thank you with all my heart for this most welcome, but en- 
tirel}^ unexpected, vote of thanks. 

I feel it to be my dut}^, as far as it may be in my power, not to 
limit my sympathies and labors to the sphere which is assigned to 
the Christian ministry exclusively, but as the opportunity is given, 
and the fitness of things allows, to touch life at all its points. 

What I have done for the enterprise so happily completed this 
day, I have done with a conscientious regard for the prior and 
higher claims of the ministry of the Church, and have endeavored 
to do my duty in both of these relations. 

Post Commander R. C. Waterman. — Mr. President, in pla- 
cing the Monument in position, a small fragment was broken off 
from one of its inward surfaces. A member of the Post — com- 
rade Francis O. Corbin — took possession of it, saying that it should 
be given to you, sir, who first suggested the erection of this Mon- 
ument, and whose unceasing interest and unflagging labors in this 
enterprise every comrade of the Post gladly recognizes, and fully 
appreciates. 

This fragment of stone has no intrinsic value ; but I am sure 
that you will value it as an evidence of the thoughtfulness of an 



The Exercises in the Tent. 95 

appreciative soldier, and as a memorial of j'our part in a work 
which must ever possess to you the deepest possible interest. 

The President of the Day. — I am deeply touched by this evi- 
dence of the kind thoughtfulness of my soldier-friend. It will 
serve to remind me in all the future, both of his thoughtful kind- 
ness, and of the happy consummation this day of what we have so 
earnestly desired. 

No jewelled decoration of honor, brilliant and precious as it 
might be, would have to me a tithe of the attractiveness and value 
of this fragment of granite, once a part of our Monument. 

Three hearty cheers were given for the Chief Marshal, whose 
prompt and efficient discharge of the duties of his office is deserv- 
ing of great commendation, and largely contributed to the success 
of the occasion. 

After the Band had been warmly cheered by the assembly, and 
heartily thanked by the President of the Day, the Exercises con- 
nected with the Dedication of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument 
in Hanover came to an end. 



"STfjeir Botiies are burieti in Peace; 6ut tfjeir Name libelfi far 

ebermore." 



^ppewrtiw 



S.ppcnt)0^ 



A MOKE favorable day could not have been given. 
Clouds covered the sun the whole time. _ p^p^.ises 

The slight shower in the afternoon occurred during the exeicises 
in the te^t, and rather contributed to, than detracted from, the 

comfort of those present. . , ,, , ^^ ^,.,p.ts were 

Quiet and good order characterized the day. ^^ '^ '^^^^ ^^^ 
n.ale, and no cases of drunkenness were seen, -facts woithj of 
note in so large and promiscuous an assembly. 

Under the protection of the good providence of God, the thou 
sands oresent were kept from accident. . 

nJlL.nl public, through the enterprise, diligence, and pa.ns- 
tii o.°of .l,e Repovtevs for the Press, obtained a very correct and 
Inost^atisfactorj' account of the services and i— -' ^■ 
Verv full and accurate reports appeared lu all the Bo tm. la J 
,„ners " The Advertiser," " The Globe," " The Herald, rhe 
r;:i," "The Post," "The Transcript," and " Jj^^J-^'-;,^. 
in the following Pljmouth-ConntjMvcckly papers "The U ,«»"' 

Countv Journal," Abington , " The S-;"-^'-"^';" i'"", ..^ol • 
Old-Colonv Memorial," Plymouth; " The Free Press, I "° " • 
'. The Rockland Standard ; " and in the following Norfolk-County 
weeklv paper, " The Weymouth Gazette." 

T i ouu^ent CommUtee, composed of one representatnc each 
J^^hc Army Post, the citizens, aud the Town ''^^ ^^^ 
character, labored with great enterprise energy, '^'^f^^^_ 
and must have felt amply repaid, by the s.gnal -'»--«/ "°^,",, 
sion, for all their thought, care, aud work, rendered m a modest 
spirit, and in an unobtrusive manner. 

At a meeting of the people of Hanover, held Sept. Ih .^. 
it was determiued that au account of the Exercises '-^!^^^^ 
Ihe Dedication of the Monument should be published lu pamphlet 

'"'The expense of this publication has been defrayed by sub- 
scription. 



100 Appendix. 

The Record would be incomplete without the recognition, which 
is made with great pleasure, of the courtesy, obliging disposition, 
despatch, ver^^ moderate charges, and artistic skill, of the pro- 
prietors of the Franklin Press, Messrs. Rand, Aver^-, & Co., who 
have done all the printing in connection with the Dedication of the 
Monument. 

THANKS TO THE MONUMENT COMMITTEE. 

At a town-meeting, held Sept. 21, 1878, it was 
Resolved, That a vote of thanks be given to the Committee on 
the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument for the faithful, efficient, and 
satisfactory- manner in which they have discharged their duties. 

THANKS TO THE LADIES OF HANOVER. 

Hanover, July 18, 1878. 
The Committee on the erection of a Soldiers' and Sailors' 
Monument in Hanover thank the Ladies of the town for their un- 
ceasing eflforts in behalf of the object. 

Their great and self-denj'ing efforts in aid of the Fair secured 
its success ; and their generous contribution of food on the 17th 
inst., and the excellent manner in which it was served, won praises 
from all. 

Their unanimity, liberality, and kindl}' spirit, demand and have 
the grateful commendation of the Committee. 

R. C. Waterman. 
Jedediah Dvtelley. 
C. T. Phillips. 

thanks to the chief marshal. 

Hanover, July 20, 1878. 

My dear Sir, — Appreciating the manifold and perplexing 

duties of the position of Chief Marshal on the occasion of the 

Dedication of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument in Hanover, 

Jul^' 17, and the signal ability with which j'ou discharged the 

same, the Committee desire to tender you. their sincere thanks for 

your valued services. 

Very respectfully and trul}' yours, 

RoDOLPH C. Waterman, 

Chairman Monumeyit Committee. 
Past Commander John G. Knight. 



101 

Appendix- 



^ r^vjv THIEF MARSHAL. 
XH..KKS TO TBK A.DBS O. THE Om^^^__^_^^_ ^^,^ ^^_ ,,„. 

Th,. vote of thanks oxtdded to the 
a«...«B» o. XB. ST.«, -J^;;* eb,atio„ reminds me tUa 
Chief Marshal for his services at the C ^^^^ ^^^^,^^ „„e 

'"^ ^"' r ::r::Xde~ p^- «' ^^^ ----"^^ 

thirr r^s of the Marsha,^.^^ ^. _^^„ , 

''\uunderta,d„gs,notwxthmthelm ^_^^ ^^^^ „, ,„l 

are prosperous in proportion ^ tte K. . ^^^^^_ ^^^^.^^, j.„ „ 

dinates. To yon, *erefore fo th ^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^,_^^^^^ ._ <i 
cheerfnlly rendered on haUajsb=^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^,^,,, ered.t tire 

"'^'1''™"a?woT:hr:„.h his aides. 

chief ma5 lece.e ^,^^^,^ ^.^^p^,«„i^,^^ ^^^^^^^^ CMe/ *a«^ai. 

.H„.s ro TH. s«.. o. ™. -— .:l™-- -„, 

I cannot deny myself the S'^'^' 'f'^'HJ^'.Zi 
Xh::i»7 offor yonr .ery ^-J tdTr'Te vlT conrteons 

t ia. of - -^>r 'retleS ' With he. .ishes, i-ei.eve 

manner m which tnej 

me to be Sincerely yours, ^^ ^^^^^y Brooks. 

.„«.sro™.so„rH....«o.B....^^_^^^^^^^^^ 

1 nressed with accumu- 
K, cUarSir,-!^^ great ^-j-;:',:,, 'pleasure of expressing 
lated duties, I cannot d^^J' "'^'"' .^^ Satisfaction with the manne. 
o ou my very m-h "o-;^,::;:::. discharged on Wednesday ^ 
to which yonr P"f--°";'* f^s^uTers- and Sailors' Monmnenl m 
ast at the Dedication of the feoldie fully j"st*«^ ^'> 

last, at reputation of the hanu ,^ have 

r^t deli "f»I -■■« O" r^rrmn-:::? portion of the 
*:n done to -->- »ore .omp^^^ ^^^„,^^ , „, ,,e members 
exercises. Hease present mj „r 



102 Appendix. 

of 3-our band for their most acceptable services and gentlemanly 
deportment. Your part in contributing to the pleasure of the 
Dedication was an important one, and is full}' appreciated. Be- 
lieve me to be 

Very sincerely yours, 

Wm. Henry Brooks. 
Mr. Wm. A. Bowr.ES, Leader of the South- Abinfjton Band. 

South Hanover, July 19, 1878. 
Mr. Wm. A. Bowles. 

Dear Sir, — The Hanover-Monument Committee desire to do 
themselves the pleasure, and you the justice, of expressing their 
great gratification at the manner in which you and each member of 
your band performed their important part in the Dedication cere- 
monies on Wednesda}' last, — not onl}' for the excellent music 
furnished, but for the courteous attention accorded to every wish 
of the Committee, and of the President of the Da}-. At a meet- 
ing of the Committee on the 18th inst., a vote of thanks Avas 
unanimousl}' passed, and the writer was instructed to forward the 
same to 3'ou. With sincere regard, I remain 
Yours very respectfully, 

Calvin T. Phillips, 

For the Committee. 

The Joseph E. Wilder Post, No. 83, G. A. R., of Hanover, was 
organized April 29, 1869, under the direction of the late Gen. 
James L. Bates of Wej'mouth, and is in a flourishing condition. 
The following is a 

ROLL OF OFFICERS AND MEMBERS. 

Commander K. C. Waterman. 

S. V. C. Lewis Josselyii. 

J. V. C. Everett N". Mann. 

Adjutant M. V. Bonney. 

Quartermaster John G. Kiiiglit. 

Chaplain Henry B. Whitman. 

Surgeon W. R. Howes, M.D. 

Officer i)f tlie Bay .... Francis O, Corbin. 

Officer of the Guard .... Alfred C. Damon. 

Q. M. S J. F. McConuey. 

Sergeant Major Henry Wright. 

George B. Oldliam. Joseph Vining. 

R. M. Sturtevant. J. W. Cliamberlin. 



Appendix. 



103 



William S. Sherman. 
Lebbeus Stockbridge, 
Peleg S. Sturtevant. 
James C. Bates. 
Horace S. Tower. 
George Hoi lis. 
James H. Dwelley. 
Samuel A. Henderson. 
Thomas D. Brooks. 
Samuel F. Buffum. 
George M. Curtis. 
Henry W. Howland. 
John D. Gardner. 



George Sturtevant. 
Andrew C. Totman. 
John A. Dame. 
William H. Churchill. 
Henry A. Farrar. 
Samuel Keene. 
Benjamin F. White. 
Joseph C. Norton. 
Joshua S. Rose. 
Elisha W. Ford. 
Edward E. Turner. 
Nathan Howard. 



PAST COMMANDEES. 

George B. Oldham. John G. Knight. 

M. V. Bonney. Rufus M. Sturtevant. 



LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 



014 079 055 2( 



